2022-06-14 New US Rules for Charter School Financing Face Pushback
President Joe Biden’s administration is considering new rules on federal financing of public charter schools. Charter schools are different from…
2022-06-14 What Is a ‘Bear Market?’
A major measure of the U.S. stock market, the S&P 500 Index, decreased 3.9 percent Monday. That means the index…
2022-06-14 Famous Hong Kong Floating Restaurant Towed Away
Jumbo Floating Restaurant on Aberdeen Harbor in Hong Kong was towed away on Tuesday after being closed by the pandemic.…
2022-06-14 New York Court Rules That an Elephant Is Not a Person
Happy the elephant may be intelligent and worthy of our care, but she cannot be considered a person, New York’s…
2022-06-14 Children Release Orphaned Turtles into the Wild
The circle of life was on live display with the help of some little children and young turtles in the…
2022-06-14 Wikimedia Group Fights Russian Order to Remove Ukraine War Information
The Wikimedia Foundation is appealing the decision of a court in Moscow demanding that it remove information related to the…
2022-06-13 Studies: Some Cancer Patients May Not Need Treatments after Surgery
After surgery, some cancer patients can safely avoid treatments such as radiation or chemotherapy, say two recent studies that explore…
2022-06-13 US: Pfizer COVID Shot Appears Effective for Children under 5
American health officials said Sunday that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appears to be safe and effective for children under 5. Children…
2022-06-13 Ukraine Thanks Boy, Father Who Used Drone to Locate Russian Tanks
They were not soldiers. But a 15-year-old Ukrainian boy and his father from a village outside of Kyiv won praise…
2022-06-13 Scientists Might Have Found Europe’s Biggest Meat-eating Dinosaur
Scientists say they have discovered remains on Britain’s Isle of Wight that might belong to a meat-eating dinosaur larger than…
2022-06-13 Environmental Groups Aims to Clean up Guatemalan River
In Guatemala, environmental workers have set up a steel screen across a dirty river to try to trap plastics and…
2022-06-12 Two Self-Sailing Ships Cross World Oceans for First Time
Two different ships have used autonomous sailing technology to complete trips across world oceans for the first time. One of…
2022-06-12 Scientists: Ancient Giraffe Family Developed Long Neck for Fighting
The ancient bones of a distant ancestor of the modern giraffe are offering scientists evidence about why the animal’s long…