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(AP NEWS) Many Americans with high-deductible health insurance plans face a cold reality at the start of every year. Those deductibles will have to be paid before most coverage starts. That can mean thousands of dollars in fresh health care bills. Such financial hits can be brutal for patients with cancer or other chronic conditions. They may have met their deductibles last year, only to see them reset in January. Patients

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. - This week's arctic blast that had folks considering whether that cup of coffee really was worth a trip outdoors is the other side of the same coin that in 2024 delivered excessive heat resulting in Hurricane Helene's destructive floodwaters - weather extremes linked to climate change. There's a disconnect with that when it comes to the correlation between climate change and environmental justice, which impacts the

[caption id="attachment_10573" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Alicia Keys gives a speech after accepting the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award on Sunday at the 67th Grammy Awards. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)[/caption] BY TARA SUTER, THE HILL Alicia Keys used her remarks at the Grammy Awards late Sunday to make an impassioned plea for diversity. "This is not the time to shut down a diversity of voices. We've seen on this stage, talented, hardworking

[caption id="attachment_10559" align="alignnone" width="1440"] In this undated image provided by the National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB investigators and members of the salvage crew recover wreckage from the Army Black Hawk helicopter that collided with an American Airlines jet Wednesday night, Jan. 29, 2025, near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va. (NTSB via AP)[/caption] (AP NEWS) American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter collided in midair near Washington D.C.'s

[caption id="attachment_7281" align="alignnone" width="970"] (Jackie Valley/The Christian Science Monitor via AP)[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) - America's children have continued to lose ground on reading skills in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and have made little improvement in math, according to the latest results of an exam known as the nation's report card. The findings are yet another setback for U.S. schools and reflect the myriad challenges that have upended education, from pandemic school closures to a youth mental

Black Military Service during the Revolutionary War [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="280"] Agrippa Hull Continental Army veteran[/caption] Sentiment against the institution of slavery reached a peak in the year leading up to the Revolutionary War. Such vocal criticisms of slavery would not be heard again in the United States until the abolitionists of the Antebellum Era. Thousands of Native Americans and Blacks paid close attention to the colonial crisis. African Americans,

  EAST GREENSBORO, N.C. (Jan. 29, 2025) - As online learning in higher education continues to grow at an exponential rate, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University is among those leading the way with nine nationally recognized high-quality programs. Three of N.C. A&T's undergraduate programs and six of its graduate programs are included in U.S. News and World Report's 2025 Best Online Programs rankings, with two among the top

[caption id="attachment_10563" align="alignnone" width="1440"] (AP PHOTO/ALEX BRANDON)[/caption] NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to assign blame for the nation's deadliest air disaster in more than two decades. Among his chief targets: An FAA diversity hiring initiative he suggested had undermined the agency's effectiveness. "But certainly for an air traffic controller, we want the brightest, the smartest, the sharpest. We want somebody that's psychologically superior," Trump said at

By George Charles Darley, Aljazeera On a cold December morning in 1931, a short, elderly Black woman set out on a 24km (15-mile) walk from her homestead in Alabama, United States, on a quest for justice. The long trek to the court in Selma was no small undertaking for a person in her mid-70s. But Matilda McCrear was determined to go and make her legal claim for compensation for the

Orginal Source: NCPedia.org Colonial legacies Slavery has been part of North Carolina's history since its colonization by Europeans in the late 1600s and early 1700s. Many of the first enslaved people in North Carolina were brought to the colony from the West Indies or other surrounding colonies, but a significant number were brought from Africa. Records were not kept of the tribes and homelands of enslaved African people, so it