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Massachusetts population growth slows with decline in immigration, Census data shows
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (503+ words) Massachusetts population growth slowed in 2025 due to a slowdown in the international immigration fueling growth in recent years, new data from the Census Bureau showed. The population of Massachusetts grew 0.2% from July 2024 to July 2025, Census data released Tuesday showed, up…...
He left the US for an internship. Trump’s travel ban made it impossible to return
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (899+ words) The first time Patrick Thaw saw his University of Michigan friends together since sophomore year ended was bittersweet. They were starting a new semester in Ann Arbor, while he was FaceTiming in from Singapore, stranded half a world away. One…...
Cómo usan los estadounidenses la IA en el trabajo, según nueva encuesta de Gallup
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (798+ words) Por MATT O'BRIEN y LINLEY SANDERS Los trabajadores estadounidenses han adoptado la inteligencia artificial en sus vidas laborales a un ritmo notable en los "ltimos a'os, seg"n una nueva encuesta. Aproximadamente el 12% de los adultos empleados dicen que usan…...
Editorial: Going after irresponsible student loan policies
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (200+ words) Changes are coming to the federal student loan program. And it can't happen fast enough. It should thus be no surprise that student loan recipients currently owe $1.8 trillion, with as much as 10% of that in default. Yet while the problems…...
McCloskey: Too many kids have encountered deepfakes
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (507+ words) The increasing availability of AI nudification tools, such as those associated with Grok, has fueled skyrocketing reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material " from roughly 4,700 in 2023 to over 440,000 in the first half of 2025 alone, according to the National Center on…...
A TV show about the NYPD is now a legal drama starring the city and Dr. Phil’s son
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (703+ words) The city sued the younger McGraw and his production company this week for breach of contract and obtained a court order that blocks them, at least temporarily, from selling or disseminating any footage from the unfinished and unaired show, tentatively…...
New York school violated civil rights law by changing name from ‘Thunderbirds’ to ‘T-Birds,’ US says
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (289+ words) The U.S. Department of Education said Thursday that the Connetquot Central School District can voluntarily resolve the federal law violation by restoring the "rightful" Thunderbirds" name. The Long Island district, like others in the state, changed its team name in order…...
Michael Connelly says same killer committed Black Dahlia, Zodiac murders
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (1964+ words) After nearly 80 years, hope for answers to the infamous 1947 Black Dahlia murder had faded into nothingness. It was, as best-selling writer Michael Connelly said in 2024, "an unsolvable case." One for which he imagined a different outcome in his then-new book,…...
Agentes federales detienen a menor de 5 años al que usaron como “carnada”, dice funcionaria escolar
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (606+ words) Un ni'o de cinco a'os que volv'a del preescolar en Minnesota fue trasladado por agentes federales junto con su padre a un centro de detenci'n en Texas, dijeron autoridades escolares y el abogado de la familia, convirti'ndolo en el cuarto…...
Conservative group says Los Angeles school policy hurts white students in federal lawsuit
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (296+ words) The 1776 Project Foundation, created by the 1776 Project PAC, targeted in its lawsuit a Los Angeles Unified School District policy that provides smaller class sizes and other benefits to schools with predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian or other non-white students. It dates…...