Rep. Bobby Scott of Virginia began a recent hearing of the House education committee by addressing the “elephant in the room” — President Trump’s efforts to diminish, and eventually dissolve, the U.S. Education Department. Jose Luis Magana/AP; Getty Images; Photo collage/Newsportu hide caption toggle caption Jose Luis Magana/AP; Getty Images; Photo collage/Newsportu U.S. education policy […]
The pace of hiring slowed slightly in January, signaling more subdued employment growth even as joblessness remained low. A total of 143,000 jobs were added, a showing that fell short of forecasts, the Labor Department reported on Friday. The unemployment rate edged down to 4 percent. In addition, annual revisions created a picture of a […]
Ione Wells South America correspondent Reporting fromGuayaquil, Ecuador BBC Security is a central issue in the presidential election as the country is plagued by gang violence “The entire town feels like it is in a pandemic, locked up without being able to go out and enjoy our lives due to violence.” That is how “Jorge” […]
Until recently, almost every edition included a pouting selfie of Ms. Sundberg, even if the headline was about Goldman Sachs interns. (“There’s a lot of guys,” she said of her subscriber base.) Feed Me is preoccupied with a certain slice of millennial culture in New York City. The restaurants they patronize, the media they consume, […]
BBC Carly and Carl went through with an abortion but later found out there had been a mistake and nothing had been wrong with their unborn baby Two couples have told the BBC they went through with abortions after an NHS trust mistakenly told them their unborn babies had serious genetic conditions. They say errors […]
Miya Chahal BBC News, Nottingham Reporting fromQueen’s Medical Centre BBC A corridor leading to the pain clinic, which has flooded due to a pump failure Inside one of Nottingham’s busiest hospitals stands an abandoned clinic where plaster is peeling off the walls, ceilings have caved in and standing water floods the corridor. “This is what […]
Surgeons in Boston successfully transplanted the kidney of a genetically modified pig into a 66-year-old man with kidney failure last month, Massachusetts General Hospital announced on Friday. It was the fourth pig kidney transplant in the United States, and the first of three that will be done at Mass General as part of a new […]
Less than six months ago, Federal Reserve officials were wringing their hands about the state of the labor market. No major cracks had emerged, but monthly jobs growth had slowed and the unemployment rate was steadily ticking higher. In a bid to preserve the economy’s strength, the Fed took the unusual step of lowering interest […]
It’s the FA Cup fourth round this weekend, and the stakes are high for clubs, players, managers and owners desperate to keep alive their hopes of success this season — such as Manchester United, Tottenham, Marcus Rashford, Ruud van Nistelrooy and, of course, Tom Brady. The fourth round is about heavyweight clashes and the remaining […]
BBC Jacob Kasselia lost a member of his congregation in the attack. “He was simply a good man,” the priest said. In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest, looked up towards the stained glass windows above him, then back down at his hands. He adjusted […]