When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of education that advocates had demanded for decades: they began dropping standardized tests such as the SAT and the ACT as requirements for admissions. As was the case with so many other pandemic-era societal adaptations—government economic relief that lowered poverty rates, More
People who live near the intersection of Columbia Road and College Road in Aurelius Township said it’s not safe.
STORY: More than 700 school students stranded in their dormitories after heavy rains and the ensuing floods were rescued by emergency workers, said CCTV.The southern Chinese province has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall since Thursday (April 18), with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the region's annual flooding season.As of Monday morning, 11 people were missing in Guangdong, state-owned Xinhua news agency reported without giving...
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
Authorities have evacuated nearly 60,000 people from their homes in
Thousands of Colombians took to the streets Sunday in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro's reform agenda. The demonstrations took place in several cities, including the capital. Protesters filled Bolivar Plaza outside the presidential palace in Bogota. While protests have been a constant since the former leftist guerrilla
UPDATE (4/19/24): The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 20-year-old Jordan Lavoris Dean of Macon in connection with a deadly shooting on Winston Drive. According to the sheriff’s office, deputies took Dean into custody at a home on Felton Avenue. Dean faces charges for murder and tampering with evidence. He does not have bond. This investigation is ongoing. Anyone
A short Reddit outage hit the platform on Thursday, April 25, after users complained that they only received an error message when accessing the site.
Two navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal
Last September witnessed what used to be a truly rare weather phenomenon: a Mediterranean hurricane, or “medicane.” Once upon a time, the Mediterranean Sea simply didn’t get hot enough to produce hurricanes more than every few hundred (yes, few hundred!) years. In this case, however, Storm Daniel assaulted Libya with a biblical-style deluge for four More
The Magic will take on the Cavs for game four of the NBA Playoffs series. Saturday -- magic fans hope to even the series for their first playoffs series in five years. The game starts at 1 p.m. People can expect big crowds around that area as well.
Eleven people are missing following storms that battered southern China, state media said Monday, with tens of thousands evacuated away from the torrential downpours.Heavy rain has descended upon the vast southern province of Guangdong in recent days, swelling rivers and raising fears of severe flooding that state media said could be of the sort only "seen around once a century"."A total of 11 people are missing after continuous heavy rainfall hit many parts of (Guangdong) in recent days," state...