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Top youth innovators recognized in National 4-H Artificial Intelligence Challenge
AMES, Iowa – The National 4-H Artificial Intelligence Challenge has announced its 2025 national winners, recognizing extraordinary youth innovators using artificial intelligence to tackle real-world challenges. This first-of-its-kind competition...

Gloucester County, Va., Responds to Ransomware Attack
A recent ransomware attack in Gloucester County, Va., has compromised residents’ personal information and officials are monitoring its aftermath amid a state and federal investigation. The county’s Information Technology Department (ITD) detected...

Herbal medicine meets modern medicine: A synergy shaping healthcareâs future
Integrating herbal therapies with conventional treatments can enhance health outcomes, particularly in cancer care. Specific herbs like oregano and turmeric synergize with antibiotics and chemotherapy, reducing drug side effects and improving...

Trump’s Policies Have US States Eyeing Offshore Wind Power From Canada and Elsewhere
Wind farm in Nova Scotia, Canada.Education Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. This story was originally published by Canada’s...

House conservatives urge Senate to pass Trump's spending cuts without changes
Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, on the Trump administration cutting taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal immigrants, planned layoffs for the State Department and the push to codify DOGE cuts. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! FIRST ON FOX: A...

Word from the Smokies: Eastern box turtle’s path to state symbol status
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the most biodiverse places in the world, so it’s no surprise that many of the plants and animals chosen as symbols of the two states it straddles — North Carolina and Tennessee — are found within its...

Why Hawaii may be a blue ocean for advisor AUM growth
Research shows advisors in the Aloha State could see more than $900 million in client assets on average, while fierce competition places New York near the bottom in state rankings. SEC-registered dvisors based in Hawaii may face less competition...

Kentucky joins lawsuit against Trump Administration’s freeze on education funding
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WBKO) - Today, Gov. Andy Beshear announced that he and leaders from 23 other states and the District of Columbia are challenging the Trump Administration over its decision to freeze $6.8 billion in education funding. The lawsuit...

Word from the Smokies: The eastern box turtle’s path to state symbol status
Mockingbirds and cardinals, fireflies and dogwoods, opossums and passionflowers have all found a place of honor in state statutes over the years, as have raccoons, tulip poplars, zebra swallowtail butterflies, Southern Appalachian brook trout,...

How much Trump's ‘big beautiful' bill could raise electricity costs in every U.S. state over the next 10 years
Electricity prices are expected to surge higher throughout the next decade due to energy policy changes in President Donald Trump's "big beautiful" bill, according to a new analysis from Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate think...

A Year With the Seals review – what to know about the elusive sea creature
‘There is no creature born, even among the greater apes, which more resembles a human baby in its ways and its cries than a baby grey seal,” wrote the ecologist Frank Fraser Darling in 1939. Seals’ large eyes, the five digits of their flippers,...

Americans say they want a third party. Musk may find it a tricky liftoff.
“Ad Astra Per Aspera,” Elon Musk posted Saturday on X. That’s Latin for “To the stars through hardships,” an apt motto for many of the multibillionaire’s endeavors – be it the Grok chatbot that made headlines last week for spewing anti-Semitism to...

Buying an EV? You might want to do it soon.
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Sen. Luján calls for quick RECA implementation as healthcare cuts threaten New Mexico victims
As the 80th anniversary of the Trinity Test approaches this week, New Mexico radiation exposure victims are closer than ever to receiving federal compensation, but face new threats to their healthcare access from proposed Medicaid cuts. Senator...

Illinois among 24 states suing Trump administration over frozen education funding
Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul has once again joined a coalition of other attorneys general in suing the Trump administration, this time for blocking education funding as the school year is set to begin across the country. The suit,...

23 attorneys general sue Education Department to unfreeze $6.8B
In their 31st lawsuit against the Trump administration, a coalition of Democratic attorneys general is suing the Education Department and Education Secretary Linda McMahon to unfreeze $6.8 billion in federal funding. Filed in a U.S. District Court...

My Turn: Massachusetts is breaking its constitutional promise
Franklin County Justice Center FILE PHOTO The Sixth Amendment guarantees every person accused of a crime the right to a lawyer. It doesn’t say, “if one’s available.” It doesn’t say, “if the budget allows.” It says the accused shall have the...

The Forgotten Patriotic Artists of Forest Hills Gardens
Views: 0 The Voice Behind Patriotic Posters & Bookplates Comes Alive By Michael Perlman Forest Hills Gardens, which was established in 1909, harbors an extensive history of residents who became known for their achievements on local to...

ER visits for tick bites are at their highest level in years: Here's where
A tick (Ixodida) can be seen on the skin of a human next to a pair of tweezers. (Photo by Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images) WASHINGTON - Tick bites are landing people in the emergency room at higher rates than the U.S. has seen in...

States sue to release $7B in federal education funding illegally withheld
“Student success and wellbeing is a nonpartisan issue. It’s inexcusable that the federal government would choose to wreak havoc on local school systems like this as they prepare for the upcoming school year,” Brown said. “We’re fighting for every...