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Board members debate and vote on amendments during the State Board of Education meeting in Austin on Friday, June 26, 2026. (Photo Leila Saidane for The Texas Tribune) Editor’s note: The Texas Tribune ...

After days of testimony and debate, the State Board of Education approved two controversial measures that require Bible ...

In the summer of 1945, four days after Japan’s official surrender and a few weeks into the Atomic Age, President Harry Truman began floating the idea of an agency guided by “the free intelligence of ...

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Australia became the first country to prohibit those under age 16 from using major social media platforms in December 2025. The aim was to limit the potentially harmful cognitive, social, and mental ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids students are getting firsthand experience in the outdoors this week for the eighth annual Grand Canoe Experience. The experience is a partnership between Grand ...

Of the over 71 million Americans who receive regular Social Security payments, some can expect their April checks to arrive this week. The remainder of the month’s disability payments will be ...

In one of Kurt Vonnegut’s stories, God leaves it to humans to think of a purpose for everything, including "all this." Purpose both gives us something to live for and provides the foundation to pursue ...

Do you doomscroll? If so, you’re not alone. One 2024 survey found that almost a third of American adults regularly doomscroll—that is, swipe through endless social media feeds—and millennials and Gen ...

Remember those hard-to-watch Portland Trail Blazers games before the calendar flipped to the new year? The seemingly never-ending run of narrow defeats that saw them fight and claw and will their way ...

What works in the boardroom typically doesn’t translate to the rest of the outside world. But that didn’t stop McDonald’s CEO from trying in a now-famous social media post that sparked a fast-food ...