ATLANTA, GA — Sunday’s report of 3,177 newly confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a day, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, comes as Georgia is about to open a free mega-testing site near Atlanta. The site opens Aug. 10 near Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Airport. On Sunday the Georgia Department […]
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Friends Angela Sun, Madeleine Zheng, and Mae Zhang want to make things easier on parents who are trying to juggle work and helping their kids with school, so they launched a free virtual tutoring service that provides help with everything from biology to economics. Sun, Zheng, and Zhang are graduates […]
Nathan Howard/Getty For nearly a month, Riot Ribs served barbecue, tacos, jalapeno poppers—whatever they had on hand—from a series of tents near the site of ongoing protests in Portland, Oregon. Then, on Tuesday, the food collective announced an abrupt closure. Someone was impersonating the group and swindling money, members said. […]
This list has been updated for fall 2020. With schools going remote or part-time this fall to stop the spread of coronavirus, you may find yourself with a side-gig: teacher. Whether you’re transitioning to full-time home-school, using your school’s remote learning, considering a micro-school or “pandemic pod,” or just facing […]
Former Vice President Joe Biden urged the Trump administration to take steps to ensure the development of a vaccine for the coronavirus will be “free from political pressure” and asked the White House to respect science as the nation reels from the COVID-19 pandemic. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president made […]
A Michigan judge has refused to release a 15-year-old Black high school student who was incarcerated after failing to complete her online schoolwork, which the judge said violated her probation. Oakland County Circuit Judge Mary Ellen Brennan, who denied the motion for early release on Monday, said the teen was […]
“The 360” shows you diverse perspectives on the day’s top stories and debates. What’s happening The phrase “Twitter, do your thing” can set off a potentially powerful series of events in what has become a repeated online phenomenon: A person or brand does something considered offensive or problematic, a social […]
Photo credit: Walmart From Good Housekeeping With the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents’ summer plans — which are often locked into place way back in January — have been thrown for a loop. Depending on where you live and how bad the outbreak is, traditional camps may not be […]
Loretta Ross. (Courtesy of speakoutnow.org) WASHINGTON — A once obscure internet debate over the limits of free speech and the rise of what critics call “cancel culture” has, somewhat improbably, become a significant 2020 campaign issue. President Trump tapped into conservative worries about cancel culture — the notion that everyone […]
EY has forged a unique partnership with Hult International Business School to offers its employees an online MBA for free For years, business schools have anxiously watched and worried about corporate attempts to educate their own employees. The biggest impact of these efforts has been by far on executive education, […]
Its regular event, which was scheduled to kick off on 23 July, was cancelled earlier this year for the first time ever in the convention’s 50 year history due to the coronavirus pandemic. The live event will return in 2021, but to fill this year’s gap the organisers have lined […]
Many Americans have embraced health officials’ recommendation to wear masks in public, and those who refuse to mask up are likely to encounter increasing pressure in the coming weeks and months. There is a “sizable minority” of Americans who are skeptical, Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told USA TODAY – evidenced in part […]
Many Americans have embraced health officials’ recommendation to wear masks in public, but those who refuse to mask up are likely to encounter increasing pressure in the coming weeks and months. There is a “sizable minority” of Americans who are skeptical, Ashish Jha, the director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, told USA TODAY — evidenced in […]
As novel coronavirus spreads throughout the United States, millions of Americans are spending more time at home. MORE: Here’s everything coming to Disney+ in June But whether you’re doing so because of a job loss, working from home situation or otherwise taking part in the mass effort to stay safe, […]