With the fall semester upon us, colleges and universities unveiled their plans for students—and many are just as quickly upending those plans. The University of North Carolina and Notre Dame recently announced they were changing their on campus plans as COVID-19 cases spiked. Many other universities are sure to follow. […]
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KEY POINTS Kepler’s supernova remnants still moving at high speeds 400 years after the explosion The remnants are moving at speeds of 20 million miles per hour That’s 25,000 times faster than the speed of sound on Earth Astronomers have found that the debris from a supernova blast is still moving at […]
The coronavirus is hitting hard again in nursing homes, with the number of new infections climbing to a weekly high, according to a new report. Most of the new cases are in Sunbelt states. Showing again the virus does not discriminate between the old and the young, one of the […]
We as governors — along with decision makers in state legislatures, school boards, workforce boards, and city and county governments — assess each day the growing damage of COVID-19 to our economic, educational, social and health care systems. We are especially concerned about the millions of young Americans who have been away from […]
At least three Chicago high schools have voted to discontinue having resource officers from the Chicago Police Department — but at least 15 more have decided to keep their officers, and dozens of others have yet to decide. Chicago Public Schools released a list on its website this week for […]
Carl Court/Getty As American school officials debate when it will be safe for schoolchildren to return to classrooms, looking abroad may offer insights. Nearly every country in the world shuttered their schools early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have since sent students back to class, with varying degrees of success. […]
Denzel Washington tackles the 2000 role of coach Herman Boone in “Remember the Titans.” (Tracy Bennett / Buena Vista Pictures) With the CIF deciding to delay the start of the high school football season until Jan. 8 because of uncertainty and safety concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, teens and their […]
Denzel Washington tackled the 2000 role of coach Herman Boone in “Remember the Titans.” (Tracy Bennett / Buena Vista Pictures) With the CIF deciding to delay the start of the high school football season until Jan. 8 because of uncertainty and safety concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic, families are going […]
The coronavirus pandemic prompted California to spike all fall high school sports on Monday, in favor of a new calendar that will compact all games, like football, into a few winter and spring months. The California Interscholastic Federation, which regulates high school sports, won’t stage any games in any sports […]
Photo credit: FOX – Getty Images From Seventeen Naya Rivera’s family and friends are mourning her death after her body was found at Lake Piru, where she disappeared several days before. According to officials, the actress accidentally drowned after going out swimming with her son, Josey. “She mustered enough energy […]
Click here to read the full article. This week looks to be the biggest yet for original feature films debuting online. We don’t have data for “Greyhound,” the Tom Hanks World War II drama that Sony sold to Apple for $70 million; ditto Sundance hit “Palm Springs” on Hulu (a […]
Heavyn Lee would start her day at 5 every morning to begin her journey to Miami Beach Senior High. She would get up, take a swig of chocolate milk and run to catch the 183rd Local, the Miami-Dade bus that would take her from her Miami Gardens home through North […]