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‘Next Big Wave’: Radiation Drugs Track and Kill Cancer Cells
Doctors are reporting improved survival in men with advanced prostate cancer from an experimental drug that ...
NASA Picks Venus as Hot Spot for Two New Robotic Missions
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is returning to sizzling Venus, our closest yet perhaps most ...
Tennessee State University Offers Coding Classes in Africa
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee State University announced on Wednesday that it will begin offering an ...
Students Line Up for Vaccines Amid Push to Relax Masking
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas schools are stepping up efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to newly ...
Illinois Researchers Working to Save Ornate Box Turtles
FRANKLIN GROVE, Ill. (AP) — A team of Illinois researchers is using dogs to track down ...
Some Black Parents Say Remote Learning Gives Racism Reprieve
CHICAGO (AP) — Before schools shuttered during the pandemic, Ayaana Johnson worried every time she dropped ...
Two Books Based on ‘1619 Project’ Coming Out in November
NEW YORK (AP) — Two books based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "1619 Project" will be released ...
Advocates Call on NCAA to Act in Response to Anti-Trans Laws
Athletes, coaches and advocates are calling on the NCAA to act in response to state laws ...
Students Lead US Push for Fuller Black History Education
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Ebele Azikiwe was in the sixth grade last year when February came ...
Steep Decline in Giant Sea Turtles Seen Off US West Coast
MONTEREY, Calif. (AP) — Scientists were documenting stranded sea turtles on California's beaches nearly 40 years ...
At Clemson, Unmarked Slave Graves Highlight Plantation Past
CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson ...
Pandemic Masks Ongoing Child Abuse Crisis as Cases Plummet
LANSFORD, Pa. (AP) — Ava Lerario lived in a home marked by both love and chaos, ...
Homeschooling Doubled from Pandemic’s Start to Last Fall
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of ...
California Adopts First Statewide Ethnic Studies Curriculum
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As America reels from its latest spate of deadly hate crimes and ...
Lawmakers Can’t Cite Local Examples of Trans Girls in Sports
Legislators in more than 20 states have introduced bills this year that would ban transgender girls ...
It’s Back to School for Jill Biden and New Education Chief
MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) — Jill Biden, the teacher in the White House, along with new Education ...
National Spelling Bee to Return in Mostly Virtual Format
The Scripps National Spelling Bee will return this year in a mostly virtual format, with the ...
1st Clone of US Endangered Species, a Ferret, Announced
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Scientists have cloned the first U.S. endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated ...
Some Dinosaur Migration was Delayed by Climate, Study Shows
Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a ...
CDC: Strong Evidence In-Person Schooling Can Be Done Safely
The nation's top public health agency said Friday that in-person schooling can resume safely with masks, ...
Ancient Shell Horn Can Still Play a Tune After 18,000 Years
WASHINGTON (AP) — A large conch shell overlooked in a museum for decades is now thought ...
Maryland House Overrides Veto of Major Education Measure
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland House of Delegates voted Monday to override Gov. Larry Hogan's ...
Amanda Gorman, in a First, Brings Poetry to Super Bowl
NEW YORK (AP) — Amanda Gorman, the 22-year-old poet who stirred America at the inauguration of ...
Biden Officials Considering Action on Student Debt Relief
The Biden administration is reviewing whether it can take steps to provide student debt relief through ...
NC Lawmakers Pass COVID Relief, Advance K-12 Reopening Bill
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers on Thursday unanimously approved a coronavirus relief bill that ...
Under the Sea, Humans Have Changed Ocean Sounds
WASHINGTON (AP) — Not only are humans changing the surface and temperature of the planet, but ...
Chicago Schools Extend Talks with Union Over In-Person Class
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools leaders extended remote learning Monday for two more days and ...
Push to Reopen Schools Could Leave Out Millions of Students
President Joe Biden says he wants most schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade to reopen by ...
Fighting Climate Change in America Means Changes to America
Climate isn't the only thing changing ...
EXPLAINER: Why It’s Hard to Make Vaccines and Boost Supplies
With demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world's supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to ...
In CDC’s Backyard, School Reopening Debate Divides Experts
Just down the road from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a community ...
Teacher Trained 56 Guide Dogs, Passed Legacy to Students
After years of treating President Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric with a light touch, Facebook and Instagram ...
Christmas in The ICU: Decorations, Lights and Many Tears
OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — A Christmas tree stands outside the intensive care room where a man ...
Oklahoma Teachers Union Head Warns About Return to Classes
A program that has pumped $2.7 billion into healing long-term injuries to the Great Lakes environment ...
Theater Uses Its Creativity to Defy Pandemic and Stage shows
NEW YORK (AP) — There's theater on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights ...
Some Schools Go Remote, Others Ask for Voluntary Quarantines
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Some Vermont schools are moving to all-remote teaching in the week following ...
Pandemic Pushes Steep Drop in Foreign College Students
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Just two semesters short of earning a cybersecurity master's degree in the ...
Community Colleges Boost Internet Capability Through Network
RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's 15 community colleges are upgrading to a fiber-based broadband network that ...
Hospitals Competing for Nurses as US Coronavirus Cases Surge
FENTON, Michigan (AP) — As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the nation and infections and hospitalizations ...
Families, Day Cares Feel Strain of New COVID-19 Health Rules
SEATTLE (AP) — Joelle Wheatley hit her pandemic-parenting rock bottom after her son was sent home ...
