A student at Longwood Middle School in Middle Island, N.Y., takes a math test. Newsday LLC/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Newsday LLC/Getty Images Almost five years have passed since COVID-19 first disrupted America’s schools, and new data, known as the Nation’s Report Card, offers cause for hope — and concern. The good news: In…
Almost all automakers are going to feel a pinch from the new tariffs imposed by President Trump on Saturday on goods imported from Canada, Mexico and China. Auto manufacturers ship tens of billions of dollars worth of finished automobiles, engines, transmissions and other components each week across the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico. Billions…
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While running out onto the field for the first time before Super Bowl LIV’s kickoff in 2020, Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt remembers looking up and seeing a piece of trivia on the video board: If the Chiefs win today, Dustin joins his dad, Craig, and brother, Britton, as a Super Bowl champion. It immediately triggered…
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SCOTT DETROW, HOST: There’s something about a heist movie that is just fun. One of the very first that I remember watching is “The Thomas Crown Affair” with Pierce Brosnan. I saw it when I was a kid, I still remember it. It had intrigue and style and kind of “James Bond.” (SOUNDBITE OF FILM,…
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We’re all tired of spending money on stuff that breaks. Whether it’s a tool that wears out instantly or a pair of pants that gets a hole too soon, it seems like more things in this world should be something you buy for life. They’re not as common, but numerous companies make excellent products that…
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It’s a scene inside the Lemerand Center on an unfairly cold Wednesday night in early January. A junior college men’s basketball game is happening in a 1,000-seat gym. Everyone is here for that, including two players who were never supposed to be. But play has been paused. Security is defusing an altercation…
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No Other Land documents the Israeli government’s demolition of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. Cinetic Media hide caption toggle caption Cinetic Media No Other Land isn’t just the most powerful nonfiction film I saw in 2024; it also had one of the year’s more remarkable off-screen narratives. The movie brings us into Masafer…
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Tractor trailers at the Ysleta-Zaragoza International Bridge port of entry, on the U.S.-Mexico border in Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Dec. 20, 2024. David Peinado/Bloomberg via Getty Images President Donald Trump signed orders on Saturday placing tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico. Trump put a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, and a…
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Every other year, the Nation’s Report Card shows how students across the U.S. are doing in subjects like math and reading. The 2024 results are cause for hope, and concern. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: The mother of all report cards is out today – the Nation’s Report Card, that is. Every two years, the assessment gives…
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