• Walz highlights historic school funding in State of the State address

    "We're working to make Minnesota the best state in the country for a kid to grow up and our work extends far beyond the walls of this school," Gov. Tim Walz said.

  • Blackrock Aims to Launch Tokenized Investment Fund, Seeks SEC Nod for 'BUIDL' Fund on Ethereum – Finance Bitcoin News

    The globe’s most substantial asset manager by assets under management, Blackrock, has submitted a form to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the initiation of a tokenized investment fund. Additionally, the community has unearthed the development of a token named the “Blackrock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund” or BUIDL on the Ethereum blockchain. […]

  • Vegetables are losing their nutrients. Can the decline be reversed?

    A process called biofortification puts nutrients directly into seeds and could reduce global hunger, but it’s not a magic bulletIn 2004, Donald Davis and fellow scientists at the University of Texas made an alarming discovery: 43 foods, mostly vegetables, showed a marked decrease in nutrients between the mid and late 20th century.According to that research, the calcium in green beans dropped from 65 to 37mg. Vitamin A levels plummeted by almost half in asparagus. Broccoli stalks had less iron....

  • Indiana State gets by Cincinnati to NIT semifinals

    Robbie Avila broke a tie with a deep 3-pointer with 59.7 seconds remaining and finished with 22 points to rally the top-seeded and host Indiana State Sycamores to an 85-81 win over the No. 2 Cincinnati Bearcats in the NIT quarterfinals on Tuesday night. Indiana State (31-6), shunned by the NCAA Tournament selection committee, will get to travel 70 miles and stay in Indiana to play in the NIT semifinal April 2 against the winner of VCU and Utah on Wednesday night. Simas Lukosius had a game-high...

  • Hawaii among few states with federally-funded EV chargers

    LONDON, Ohio >> Within 24 hours of buying his red Ford Mustang Mach-E, Liam Sawyer set off on a camping trip.

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    Mum and daughter jailed for funding the Islamic State group

    Stella Oyella and Vanessa Atim are jailed for sending cash to a relative in

  • Indiana State rallies for NIT-opening win over SMU

    Jayson Kent scored a career-high 35 points on 11-of-12 shooting and Ryan Conwell added 25 as Indiana State staged a second-half comeback to defeat SMU 101-92 in an NIT first-round game on Wednesday night in Terre Haute, Ind. Indiana State, the regular-season champion in the Missouri Valley Conference, scored 61 points after intermission. The Sycamores (29-6) will meet Minnesota in a second-round matchup this weekend. With Indiana State down 74-64 after SMU's Chuck Harris nailed a 3-pointer...

  • Indiana State 'shattered' over snub but preparing for SMU in NIT

    Relegated to the NIT despite notable qualifications, Indiana State will host SMU in the first round Wednesday night in Terre Haute, Ind. Indiana State, a No. 1 seed, finished 28-6 but saw its bubble burst despite an NCAA Evaluation Tool (NET) rating of 29, the best ever for a team not to make the NCAA field. Coach Josh Schertz used terms like "devastation," "shattered" and "beyond disappointing" to describe the snub, which the NCAA tourney committee attributed to the Sycamores' nonconference...

  • State Funding for School-Based Mental Health Clinics

    New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced $20-million-dollars in start-up money for school-based mental health clinics — to help combat the state’s youth mental health crisis. Watch Governor Hochul’s Press Conference at Mohonasen High School: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbXfUW4zNUE

  • Battle continues over public funds for charter schools in Washington state

    (The Center Square) – A decade after the first public charter schools opened in Washington state, there are approximately 1,200 students on waiting lists to get into them, according to this year’s Charter Schools Report prepared by the Washington State Board of Education. Despite the demand and annual reports of high student achievement in charter schools, state lawmakers have been reluctant to expand the number of schools or offer equal funding. Liv Finne,...

  • EXCLUSIVE: Congress raids presidential campaign fund in surprise reversal

    Congress quietly drained hundreds of millions of dollars from a largely unused presidential campaign fund to provide a jolt of cash to the United States Secret Service and election security grants, Raw Story has confirmed.The massive raid of the Presidential Election Campaign Fund was included late last week in Congress’ latest government funding package, which President Joe Biden signed into law.Raw Story could not confirm which member, or members, of Congress are responsible for inserting...

  • Cincinnati Bearcats season ends in NIT quarterfinals at Indiana State

    Makes both. 82-77 Indiana State. :25.4 2H | Julian Larry at line. Miss. UC