Share Your Financial Aid Award Letters With Us
NPR Ed is investigating student financial aid award letters, and we’d like to see the ones that you have received.
Craft Bourbon Brewers Ride The Boom, Prepare For A Bust
While there’s been a sustained interest in bourbon in the last several years, some craft distillers are preparing in case of a bust by investing in rum and other spirits.
Mississippi’s First Female Senator Takes Office Needing To Win Over Her Own Party
Cindy Hyde-Smith is making a name for herself in the state’s history books as the first woman to represent the Magnolia state on the Hill.
Sinclair TV Host Resigns After Vulgar Tweet Threatening Parkland Survivor
After the furor over Laura Ingraham’s tweet, Jamie Allman’s crude message drew wider notice. At least three advertisers pulled their ads, and on Monday, Sinclair said it had accepted his resignation.
PrEP Campaign Aims To Block HIV Infection And Saves Lives In D.C.
PrEP is shorthand for a pill that prevents HIV infection, if taken daily. As Washington, D.C. aims to cut new infections in half by 2020, it hopes to quadruple the number of residents on the medicine.
White House Homeland Security Adviser Bossert Becomes Latest To Step Down
Tom Bossert, the White House adviser on homeland security and counterterrorism, has resigned. The move followed a day after John Bolton took over as President Trump’s national security adviser.
Women Can’t Have Prior Salaries Used Against Them, Court Says In Equal Pay Case
America’s continuing gender pay gap is “an embarrassing reality of our economy,” the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said.
Beijing Reportedly Installs Communications Jamming Equipment In South China Sea
The Wall Street Journal quotes U.S. officials as saying China has placed the jamming equipment on a reef in the disputed Spratly Islands.
California’s Higher Ed Diversity Problem
California colleges have made remarkable progress enrolling racial and ethnic minorities over the last 20 years. And yet, faculty and institutional leaders remain overwhelmingly male and white.
Ohio Teacher Will Use ‘Fortnite’ Video Game In Final Exam
Mike McCray, an AP Chemistry teacher, made a bet with his class. If their photo of the agreement, written on whiteboard, could get 6,700 retweets, he would make the exam about the video game Fortnite.
When The U.S. Deports Migrants, Remittances To Family Stop
Central American communities that have grown used to the remittances sent back from migrants living in the United States often experience a painful readjustment when the migrants are sent home.
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