Unemployment ticks up
After two weeks of decline, the number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week rose to 1.1 million. The U.S. Department of Labor’s report on Thursday […]
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Wildfires cover Bay Area in smoke
Authorities in California ordered thousands of evacuations in the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday. More than 40 wildfires in the state have destroyed or damaged […]
UNC–Chapel Hill officials respond to COVID-19 outbreak
University administrators nationwide have ordered extensive on-campus pandemic precautions, but they could not curb off-campus parties where the coronavirus spreads freely. The University of North Carolina […]
Annual bear-binging webcast underway
Fans missing the usual packed lineup of live sports in the fall can tune into webcams from Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve for some serious […]
With fall questions looming for school districts across the United States, more parents choose to educate their kids themselves
As shutdowns and social distancing debates dragged through the summer and COVID-19 flared in the South and West, politicians and educators in Washington, D.C., wrangled over […]
Public school uncertainties
Michigan education administrators by mid-August usually are well prepared for public school openings right after Labor Day. Not this year. Mike Burde, veteran assistant superintendent for […]
The politics of postage
WASHINGTON—Public scrutiny of the U.S. Postal Service is reaching new heights as the agency deals with budget problems, partisan attacks, and questions about its handling of […]
The COVID-19 chasm: Viral division
Jessi Green stood in the middle of hundreds of people gathered at Huntington Beach, Calif., holding a loudspeaker and a Bible, and broke into tears. She […]
COVID-19 complicates ministry to asylum-seekers
Every Monday for the last several months, single mother Alma Ruth crossed the border between Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico. The town is infamous for its […]
Teachers wonder whether to stay or go
Catherine Good, 58, never dreamed she’d retire from teaching during a global pandemic. “When the whole COVID thing came up, then it was like, OK, is […]