Two months of recalculating made little difference in a list of Georgia's lowest performing schools, meaning more than 400,000 students will have a chance to apply for $6,500 vouchers to pay for private school tuition or home-schooling expenses. The Governor's Office of Student Achievement released the new list on Friday, after releasing and then removing two previous lists in December. Students zoned for the lowest performing 25% of schools under Georgia’s academic rating system are eligible to apply for what the law calls “promise scholarships.”
Meta stock fell Tuesday, putting 20-day streak at risk
Pope Francis, who was admitted to hospital last week, has developed pneumonia in both of his lungs, the Vatican announced on Tuesday, adding that the 88-year-old was in "good spirits"."Nevertheless, Pope Francis is in good spirits," it added.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady flickering of light punctuated by occasional bright flares as material is drawn inward by its enormous gravitational pull. Webb, which was launched in 2021 and began collecting data in 2022, is enabling astronomers to observe the region around the black hole - called Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A* - for extended periods for the first time, allowing them to discern patterns of activity. The researchers observed a constant flickering of light from the swirling disk of gas surrounding the black hole - called an accretion disk.
Donald Trump changed the name of the "Gulf of Mexico." Google Maps updated their systems. Mexico's President continues to threaten a lawsuit.
BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia's President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday said drug traffickers have acquired two missiles which they plan to fire at his plane, in order to kill him, citing the success of his efforts to tackle the drug trade. Colombia's security forces seized a record 883.8 metric tons of cocaine in 2024, according to the ministry of defense, up from 746.3 tons in 2023.
Businesses shut down and public transport was at a standstill Tuesday in Colombia’s Choco department, as rebels from the National Liberation Army, or ELN, launched a three-day “armed strike” that confines civilians to their homes and restricts commercial activity. The move comes as violence worsens in several rural areas of Colombia, including the Choco region in the west, where 1,600 people have been displaced from their homes over the past two weeks, according to Colombia’s human rights ombudsman’s office. Colombia’s military rejected the move on Monday and said that the ELN is trying to keep civilians off the region's roads and rivers to facilitate the transport of equipment used in illegal gold mines and to move drug shipments.
Even though President Trump named Elon Musk the head of DOGE, the White House claims Musk is actually a White House senior advisor with no authority.
Tripadvisor’s annual compilation of the world’s very best stretches of shoreline, released Tuesday, offers a head start on picking a great beach to visit in 2025.
The Trump administration has put an "anti-fraud expert" temporarily in charge at the Social Security Administration, long a politically untouchable source of government spending, the White House confirmed Tuesday after the previous chief resigned in an apparent clash with Elon Musk's cost-cutting team."In the meantime, the agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner," he told AFP when asked for confirmation of King's resignation.
Intelligence from the U.S. and close allies shows Russian President Vladimir Putin still wants to control all of Ukraine, sources said.
The federal judge overseeing the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams has scheduled a hearing Wednesday to consider the Justice Department’s controversial motion to dismiss the charges.
People who lost their homes to Hurricane Helene or California wildfires could get a sizeable tax break to move to Wisconsin. Republican legislators in the Dairy State have proposed a bill that would give anyone who moves to Wisconsin from North Carolina or Los Angeles County because they were displaced by one of the disasters a $10,000 income tax credit for the 2025 tax year. The bill's authors, state Rep. Cindi Duchow and state Sen. Dan Feyen, said in memo to their colleagues seeking co-sponsors that the tax credit could draw people to the state and help alleviate chronic workforce shortages, particularly in the health care sector.
AI in healthcare is a key area of interest, but it may not be as fast-growing as some want.
A call to an anonymous tip line set off a chain of events that helped thwart a potential Valentine’s Day mass shooting in Indiana, authorities say.
A US federal judge ordered the Trump Justice Department to appear in court Wednesday to explain its extraordinary decision to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams, a move that triggered a wave of protest resignations.- 'Fool' or a 'coward' - Danielle Sassoon, the acting US attorney in Manhattan, a Trump appointee, and assistant US attorney Hagan Scotten who brought the case against Adams, resigned last week along with several Justice Department officials in Washington to pro
When Flight 4819 landed in a fiery crash that ripped off a wing and rolled the plane upside down, panicked onlookers feared the worst. But aviation experts saw decades of aircraft safety improvements in action.
“We're paralyzed because we don't know what's happening tomorrow"
The White House says billionaire Elon Musk is not the administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency team that is sweeping through federal agencies, but is rather a senior adviser to President Donald Trump. Musk's exact role could be key in the legal fight over DOGE's access to government data as the Trump administration moves to lay off thousands of federal workers. Defining him as an adviser rather that the person in charge of day-to-day operations at DOGE could help the administration beat a lawsuit arguing Musk has too much power for someone who isn't elected or Senate-confirmed.
Russia gets a small win, Ukraine gets a slight reprieve yet is still angrily outside the room and Europe is suddenly relevant again.
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