• Venezuela's Maduro Sends Devastating Message to Biden in English: 'I You Want I Want I You to Want I Do Want'

    Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro attempted to issue a message in English to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to discuss the upcoming expiration of Biden's generous oil and gas sanctions relief package to his regime.

  • Disenfranchising the elderly: Republicans want fewer voters

    Wisconsin Republican candidate for Senate Eric Hovde doesn't trust the votes of nursing home residents. Handwaving away the validity of the votes cast by people who live in nursing homes, Wisconsin Republican Candidate for Senate Eric Hovde has declared the residents too old. — Read the rest

  • ‘They don’t want to teach Black history’

    Not far from a birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement, a school district convulses after Black history and literature classes are canceled. By Frances Madeson, for Capital and Main   The protests and student walkouts have stopped as an uneasy calm settles over St. Charles County, Missouri, after the community’s all-white school board threatened to eliminate both a Black history class and Black literature class, saying the curriculum contained elements of critical race theory. As...

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    Fewer students are graduating from college, but certificate programs are way up

    After years of steady increases, the number of students earning college degrees fell for the second year in a row, according to a recent report.

  • Federal investigators want more money to go after pandemic fraud

    (The Center Square) – The federal officials tasked with tracking down widespread fraud during and after the COVID-19 pandemic want more time and more money to finish the job. The Justice Department's COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force, made up of nearly 30 federal agencies, released its 2024 report on Tuesday. The report details the efforts of the task force in response to fraud involving COVID-19 relief programs. The task force report pointed out that...

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    NASA scientist teaches Metairie students about total eclipse

    The Jewish Community Day School invited NASA structural analysis engineer Ninoshka Friedman to explain and answer students’ questions about the total eclipse.

  • Dutch make fewer phone calls since the end of the pandemic

    The Dutch are making fewer mobile phone calls than during the coronavirus pandemic, but are still calling more than in the pre-corona period, according to new figures from consumer authority ACM. Last year the Dutch were on the phone for a total of 38.3 billion minutes, 11 billion down on 2021, when the pandemic was at its height. Before the virus hit the Netherlands’ mobile phone calls totalled an average of 33 billion minutes. The number of calls made via

  • Dallas ISD alumni teach film to high school students

    Dallas ISD students who don’t have film programs at their schools are getting the opportunity to become filmmakers through a partnership with their school and a program through Pegasus Media Project, a nonprofit arts organization. The program, Youth Portable Film Program, is led by local filmmaker Christopher Sonny Martinez, a Dallas ISD alum. The program [] The post Dallas ISD alumni teach film to high school students first appeared on The Hub.

  • Sean Strickland opens up on what he wants from the UFC- “I don’t want to be rich. I want to be able to ..”

    In the adrenaline-fueled world of UFC, fighters often chase fame, fortune, and championship belts. But Sean Strickland, a self proclaimed man of conviction, has a different vision. In a candid revelation, he expressed that wealth isn’t his ultimate goal. Instead, he aspires to build a legacy that extends beyond the octagon. As per his recent posts on X (formerly Twitter), When he sat down with UFC officials, he didn’t discuss multi-million-dollar contracts or endorsement deals. Instead, he...

  • Social work students rally for paid field time and fewer hours

    Chelsea Trout spends eight hours every Monday at a charter high school in Brooklyn, where she answers phone calls, proctors SATs, oversees school lunches and handles a clinical caseload of 10 students, before heading back to Manhattan for two classes at NYU’s Silver School of Social Work. Trout, a first-year master’s student at Silver, said This story Social work students rally for paid field time and fewer hours appeared first on Washington Square News.

  • WTAMU student body president named Fulbright Scholar, to teach in Spain

    West Texas A&M announced Filiberto Avila, WTAMU's student body president, won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Program award and will conduct research and work as an English teaching assistant in Spain.

  • Hamburg college student and his 'pop-Islamist' followers want to establish a caliphate in Germany

    At just 26 years old, Raheem Boateng is already the intellectual leader of a radical Muslim group in Hamburg that greatly concerns the German security authorities. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Boateng and his group's influence have been steadily increasing. They have hundreds of active followers who attend conferences and lectures, supporting the idea of ​​establishing an Islamic caliphate in Germany. Officials who are monitoring the group refer to its followers as "pop-Islamists,"...