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Sunday, February 21, 2016

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This principal is making good grades a sport, and once students see their peers being handed $100 bills and Letterman jackets, they may try harder. 

CORRECTION: Using a February 16, 2016 United Press International article as the main source, we incorrectly dated this story. The Senate confirmation actually took... 

At least 85 of America’s top colleges are now endorsing the idea of emphasizing community involvement over personal success in their admissions policies. A new... 

A Berkeley science lab has released a free Android app that crowdsources earthquake detection to provide a few precious seconds of warning. 

Media coverage of politics and political campaigns tends to focus solely on conflicts and magnify the many differences people have. But the truth is,... 

Slumping national test-score averages are distressing, but they obscure a little-known surge in the number of American teenagers who are reaching world-class heights in... 

While news reports throughout the past year raised anxiety that New York City was slipping back into the crime rates of its bad old... 

President Obama unveiled a 2017 budget proposal that would spend $1.1 billion to expand programs for those addicted to heroin and prescription painkillers. 

While the cost of electronic devices has plummeted, fees to rent set-top boxes for pay TV have risen 185 percent. The FCC wants to do something about it. 

An army of 300 union plumbers from across the state and country joined local workers to fan out across Flint, Michigan Saturday to update faucets for residents... 

New York City is making it easier for the city’s homeless to receive mental health care. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced plans to increase the... 

Today is the first day of Black History Month in the U.S., a day when some pretty savvy college kids made history 56 years... 

The CIA released a batch of UFO reports, including photos, just in time for the return of the television show, X-Files. 

Armed with a shovel and a smartphone app, hundreds of young people fanned out across Baltimore, Maryland in the wake of last weekend’s winter... 

A tiny house, built from scrap and donated lumber by volunteers and homeless people, could be a model for ending homelessness in South Carolina. A... 

video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player   Even Snowmageddon has it's heroes. The Seven Hills Jeep Club has volunteered its wheels to shuttle back and forth from work the... 

A little village of tiny houses for the homeless is taking shape on a plot of land owned by a Lutheran church in Seattle,... 

How much would you pay for a date with People magazine’s “Sexiest Doctor Alive?” Well, it only costs $10 to get a chance to glimpse the... 

Clean drinking water is flowing into Flint, Michigan again thanks to volunteers and celebrities like Cher. Flint’s tap water became contaminated with lead after the... 

Would you believe gas prices dropped down to 47 cents per gallon last night in Michigan? GasBuddy.com has the photo to prove it. Filling stations... 

Three lucky winners will split last night’s $1.6 billion American Powerball jackpot, with winning numbers reported in California, Florida, and Tennessee. But 76 others won... 

Boston, Massachusetts has moved 533 homeless veterans out of shelters and into permanent homes in the past 18 months, since “Boston Homes for the...
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