Senators’ silence suggests they may be taking their impeachment trial duty seriously
There is nothing requiring the senators to remain silent on the issues. No written law or rule instructs senators to take that approach.
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Hit hardest by Texas’ illegal special education cap: low-income students of color, study shows
Those who lost special education services were 52 percentage points less likely to graduate high school and 38 points less likely to enroll in college as a result, according to the study.
University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year
But fewer students are paying the full tuition. Is widespread discounting helping more people afford higher education, or just making it more complicated?
Inside TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing their taxes for free
Using lobbying, the revolving door and “dark pattern” customer tricks, Intuit fended off the government’s attempts to make tax filing free and easy, and created its multibillion-dollar franchise.
Patients eligible for charity care instead get big bills
Nonprofit hospitals admit they sent $2.7 billion in bills over the course of a year to patients who probably qualified for free or discounted care.
The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones
Anxious about diversity and their bottom lines, more schools offer money to the middle.
Colleges and states turn their attention to slow-moving part-time students
Fewer than one in five students who go part time will graduate within even eight years.
Want to reduce suicides? Follow the data — to medical offices, motels and even animal shelters
Data revealed a surprising number of suicides at hotels and motels. It also showed a number of those who killed themselves had experienced eviction or foreclosure or had a medical visit within weeks or days of their death.
Millions of Americans’ medical images and data are available on the internet. Anyone can take a peek.
Hundreds of computer servers worldwide that store patient X-rays and MRIs are so insecure that anyone with a web browser or a few lines of computer code can view patient records. One expert warned about it for years.
Mounting evidence suggests people first came to North America by boat
Artifacts found in Idaho support theory that humans reached the Americas before a land route to Asia existed.
He spent years infiltrating white supremacist groups. Here’s what he has to say about what’s going on now.
We went to Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program and the author of the forthcoming book “Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy,” to inquire about the significance of a seeming burst of enforcement efforts.
Mysterious vaping lung injuries may have flown under regulatory radar
As of Aug. 22, 193 potential vaping-related illnesses in 22 states — including Minnesota — had been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
‘Christian left’ is reviving in America, appalled by treatment of migrants
The high profile, religiously based moral outrage at President Trump’s immigration policies seems to be spurring some rethinking of what it means to be Christian in America.
Huge wildfires in the Arctic and far North send a planetary warning
This summer, more than 600 wildfires have consumed more than 2.4 million acres of forest across Alaska. Fires are raging in northern Canada. In Siberia, choking smoke from 13 million acres is blanketing towns and cities.
How the University of Alaska — and other public U.S. universities — now struggle for funding
The higher education world has been rocked by the news that the University of Alaska’s state appropriations were slashed by nearly $136 million, 41% of its general fund appropriation to the university.
Illinois parents are giving up custody of their kids to get need-based college financial aid
“It’s a scam,” said Andy Borst, director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Wealthy families are manipulating the financial aid process to be eligible for financial aid they would not be otherwise eligible for.”
What Apollo tells us about the next moon missions
Half a century after Neil Armstrong stepped onto the Moon, can NASA recover the sense of adventure that sparked its Cold War triumph?
‘They just saw me as a dollar sign’: How some certificate schools profit from vulnerable students
When government turns a blind eye, for-profit colleges fail to fulfill promise of a fast path to a new career and leave students in debt.
Immigration officials use secretive gang databases to deny migrant asylum claims
The information in the databases comes from foreign police and militaries, and it is being used to detain migrants and separate them from their children.
How a top chicken company cut off black farmers, one by one
The Trump administration has weakened legal protections for farmers and eased off enforcing rules on powerful meat companies.
