Pandemic learning loss has impacted students' basic developmental skills, ranging from sharing to using scissors, raising the stakes for using the summer months to help make up the gap. In this week's Education Week State of Teaching survey, most pre-K through third-grade teachers said that, compared to five years ago, their students had more...
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday called on Hamas to respond and accept the terms of an Israeli-proposed cease-fire and hostage release deal aimed at ending the war. President Biden announced the proposal late last month, stating it includes a three-part plan towards an end to the fighting and the release of...
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville suggested that both President Biden and former President Trump are partially causing young voters to disengage, stating it is his “greatest fear.” Carville, who has been critical of Biden and has said the president should not run for another term, shared during a radio interview that the lack of engagement...
On the campaign trail in 2020, President Biden was eager to distinguish himself from his opponent on immigration issues, promising to “restore our moral standing” while casting former President Trump’s policies as cruel and inhumane. While border numbers have dipped, they still hover at historic highs. And with immigration a central issue in the 2024 contest,...
Rep. Nancy Mace (R) is looking to avert an upset in her South Carolina primary as she faces backlash from some members of her party. Mace, who flipped her seat in South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District back in 2020, is the front-runner heading into Tuesday’s primary against Catherine Templeton, a former agency official in the...
Dozens of children have died completing stupid TikTok challenges such as blackout contests or eating laundry pods. Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms, which are designed to reinforce people’s biases, allegedly lead predators directly to children's content.
Former President Trump attempted to take credit for insulin pricing in a post on Truth Social Saturday. “Low INSULIN PRICING was gotten for millions of Americans by me, and the Trump Administration, not by Crooked [President Biden,]” Trump said in the Truth Social post. “He had NOTHING to do with it. It was all done...
Pro-Palestinian protestors gathered at the White House on Saturday in protest of President Biden’s handling of the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas. “RIGHT NOW at the White House: #ThePeoplesRedLine is being formed!” a Saturday post from the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition on the social platform X...
Four hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 were rescued via a Saturday special operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Police and Israel Securities Authority, according to a joint statement from the groups. According to The Associated Press, the operation was the largest recovery of hostages who were alive since the beginning of...
Israel's latest hostage rescue operation, which brought four Israeli hostages to safety, also killed at least 210 Palestinians, including children, according to a Gaza health official. Noa Argamani, 25, Almong Meir Jan, 21, Andrey Kozlov, 27 and Shlomi Ziv, 40 were rescued by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israel Police and Israel Securities Authority, the...
Two Missouri Democrats urged their state’s governor, Mike Parson (R), to stop the execution of a convicted veteran in a letter dated Friday. “We write today to urgently ask that you halt the execution of David Hosier scheduled for June 11, 2024,” reads the letter from Democratic Missouri Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver. “As...
Three private citizens launched into space and landed safely back on Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spacecraft, completing the company’s second spaceflight of 2024 and 12 missions to date. Virgin Galactic’s seventh commercial mission carried one researcher and three private astronauts, the company said on Saturday. Onboard were two pilots Nicola Pecile and Jameel Janjua. They...
A number of high-profile Republicans have been floated as prospective running mates for former President Trump, but as he inches closer to a decision, it remains unclear who he will ultimately pick. While Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) are considered some of the leading contenders, strategists say the former president could end...