This year, many selective colleges are reversing Covid-era test-optional admissions policies, requiring applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores again. Emi Nietfeld, author of Acceptance: A Memoir (Penguin Press, 2022), discusses how taking the SAT changed her life and helped her, as a disadvantaged youth, to attend Harvard.
A new study from FPG researchers suggests preschoolers living near green space have better mental health.
By Michael Hutchins Herald Democrat This weekend, voters across Grayson County and all of North Texas will have their voices heard when they hit the… Login to continue reading Login Sign up for complimentary access Sign Up Now Close
On Sunday, April 27, the Los Bandidos running club faced the formidable hills of Enix in the latest round of the Almeria Popular Race Circuit 2024. Covering an 8km course, the race began at the Ayuntamiento with a series of undulating loops through the village before the steeper ascents began, challenging many to walk between […]
Ann Bailey reflects on the goodwill of her neighbors and how much it enhances life in her rural area.
This weekend, I—like the rest of the terminally online—was very busy making Challengers my entire personality. However, Justin Bieber was very clearly not in a theater being turned on by the best movie of 2024 (yeah, I said it). Instead, he was in his feelings. And posting about it. On Sunday, Bieber shared what looked to be a regular-degular photo dump. The first six slides are just some shots of the pop star on stage and his stash. Then, we take a hard left turn into the tear zone. In not one...
During one of my interviews this year with the British Ambassador, Hugh Elliott, the topic of crime and guns came up. He said that security is one of those areas where the Embassy has excellent cooperation with Spain, even counting on a team from the National Crime Agency, which works as part of the embassy […]
“He doesn’t understand the Catholic faith.” That’s what a Catholic bishop recently said about President Biden, a rosary-carrying, self-professed “good Catholic” who has spent the bulk of his presidency advancing issues and causes that explicitly violate Vatican teachings.
A complex of five buildings totalling 165,000 sq ft set on an eight acre site in an established industrial location in Doncaster has come to the market for sale. The Sheffield office of Knight Frank has been appointed to market Warmsworth 36 which offers easy access to Junction 36 of the M1 and offers a complex of industrial and warehouse units with ancillary offices, set within a secure site with gatehouse, all located off Warmsworth Halt. Warmsworth 36 presents a unique opportunity to acquire...
There are a lot of indie survival horror games that are fifth-generation throwbacks, but à la mode games has a particularly special one in the works.
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t receive a lead or a tip on a story in which someone believes he's found the “evidence” of a conspiracy, corruption, or the solution to an unsolved mystery. It doesn’t even need to concern the events of January 6. Almost all these tips go nowhere. And because I’m a human being and there are only 24 hours in a day, I often simply have no time to go down the rabbit hole of what a tipster deems “the most important story of all time.”For whatever reason I might...
Thanks to a strong stock market and record home prices, asset owners are feeling richer, even if it’s only on paper. Today, we get into the “wealth effect” and how it may play out in the presidential election. Also: Higher prices slow Procter & Gamble sales, the “catastrophic” halt to a Baltimore port business, and why companies change the metrics they report to investors.