Burnout, low pay and politics are driving away teachers. Turnover is soaring for educators of color
BY MARC LEVY Rhonda Hicks could have kept working into her 60s. She loved teaching and her students in Philadelphia’s public schools. As a Black woman, she took pride in being a role model for many children of color. However other […]
Read MoreFitch downgrades US credit rating, citing mounting debt and political divisions
BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) – Fitch Ratings has downgraded the United States government’s credit rating, citing rising debt at the federal, state, and local levels and a “steady deterioration in standards of governance” over the past two decades. The rating […]
Read MoreTrump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election and block transfer of power
BY ERIC TUCKER AND MICHAEL KUNZELMAN WASHINGTON (AP) – Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, […]
Read MoreFolwell lends his governor’s campaign $1 million; Stein, Robinson still on top with money
Most of what North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate and State Treasurer Dale Folwell raised during the first half of the year for his campaign committee has come from $1 million that he loaned it, according to a new campaign finance report. […]
Read MoreThe first generation of solar panels will wear out. A recycling industry is taking shape
BY ISABELLA O’MALLEY Sunlight beats down on a graveyard for dead solar panels in Yuma, Arizona, hundreds stacked in neat piles, waiting for their next life. The great majority of worn and damaged panels are still dumped in landfills. But with […]
Read More3 North Carolina residents killed by Vibrio bacteria that can be found in brackish water
Three North Carolina residents died this month from infections from bacteria naturally found in warm seawater and brackish water, state health officials said Friday. Cases of Vibrio are rare in North Carolina. While healthy people typically develop a mild illness, […]
Read MoreBed Bath & Beyond is back, this time as an online retailer
BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO NEW YORK (AP) – Overstock has officially relaunched the Bed Bath & Beyond domain online Tuesday in the U.S., after acquiring the bankrupt retail chain’s intellectual property assets for $21.5 million last month. The online retailer Overstock.com said […]
Read MoreArchitect accused in Gilgo Beach serial killings is due back in court
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) Rex Heuermann, the architect accused of murdering at least three women and leaving their bodies along a remote stretch of coastline near Long Island’s Gilgo Beach, is due back in court for the first time since his arraignment. […]
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific settles with family of Henrietta Lacks, whose HeLa cells uphold medicine
BY LEA SKENE BALTIMORE (AP) – More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a settlement with a biotechnology company they sued in […]
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