PHILADELPHIA — Standardizing the curriculum was a priority when Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. came to Philadelphia, and he allocated millions in federal stimulus funds to purchase new, research-based programs: Math rolled out last school year, and English late last month.

The district spent $25 million on two sets of English Language ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A homeless woman who claims she was subjected to unlivable conditions while living at a Sacramento motel then evicted is suing the county.

In addition to the county, the lawsuit, filed Aug. 29 in Sacramento Superior Court, names other governmental entities including the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency, the ...Read more

Nearly two dozen former employees of Mohamed Al-Fayed — father of Princess Diana’s partner Dodi Fayed, who died alongside the royal in 1997 — are accusing the late billionaire of having raped or otherwise sexually assaulted them.

The former owner of Harrods, who died at 94 in August 2023, allegedly raped as many as five women, with over ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Thursday increased odds that a developing system could head into the Gulf of Mexico and become a tropical depression or storm, while it also kept tabs on two systems in the Atlantic.

As of its 8 a.m. tropical outlook, a broad area of low pressure is forecast to form by early next week over the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Legal challenges are continuing to mount against a new Biden administration regulation that sought to expand the rights of migrant farmworkers on seasonal visas and give them more leeway to engage in union-related activities.

Late last month, a federal judge in Georgia blocked the regulation from taking effect within the state and ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia voters are increasingly confident that the 2024 presidential election will be conducted fairly and accurately, an Atlanta Journal-Constitution survey shows.

Nearly two-thirds of likely general election voters surveyed said they are very confident or somewhat confident the election will be fair and accurate. But the survey ...Read more

Tommy John pitched in the big leagues from 1963 to 1989 and won 288 games. Only 25 MLB pitchers have won more.

But check out his 27 years of statistics, and you’ll see one year is blank: 1975. That’s because in the fall of 1974, John underwent surgery for a ligament tear in his elbow, an injury once considered career-ending.

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With rising rates of obesity in the U.S. and increasing attention being paid to the health harms of processed foods, it’s clear that far more could be done to help consumers make healthy food choices.

A bill known as the TRUTH in Labeling Act has been sitting before Congress since late 2023. If passed, it would require U.S. food ...Read more

Voting will begin in many states in just a few weeks – Alabama became the first state to begin sending out mail-in ballots on Sept. 11, 2024. It’s one of 10 states that send mail-in ballots to voters more than 45 days before Election Day.

Every state’s regulations and procedures are different, so it is vital that you understand ...Read more

After several tumultuous weeks in Israel, mass demonstrations increasingly depict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as directly responsible for the fate of the hostages still held by Hamas. Despite mounting internal and international pressure to negotiate a deal with Hamas for the hostages’ release, Netanyahu remains steadfast in his ...Read more

The threat of violence was in the air at the TCF Center in Detroit on Nov. 5, 2020, after former President Donald Trump claimed that poll workers in the city were duplicating ballots and that there was an unexplained delay in delivering them for counting.

Both claims were later debunked.

Emboldened by Trump’s rhetoric, ...Read more

The operation that used pagers and walkie-talkies to kill members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was ingenious – but was it legal?

Certainly, there are those who will argue that it was. That thinking goes like this: Hezbollah has been attacking Israel with rockets, and the pagers and radios purchased by Hezbollah could be ...Read more

Sean "Diddy" Combs was the only defendant indicted this week in a sweeping sex trafficking and racketeering investigation.

But federal prosecutors made clear that they do not believe he was the only one responsible.

The 14-page indictment against Combs accuses the founder of Bad Boy Entertainment of luring female victims and using violence, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- California is a place of magnificent tectonic forces that lift mountains only for them to be constantly eroded by glaciers, wind and rain, ground down to one of the most basic commodities on Earth: sand.

Sand covers our deserts, creates our foothills and fills our arroyos. It blankets the shores and piles into towering dunes. It�...Read more