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Alaska Has Ignored Hundreds of Requests to Fix Crumbling Schools : NPR

March 5, 2025 admin No Comments

For nearly two decades, children in Sleetmute, Alaska, have been going to school in a building with a leaking roof. The state repeatedly ignored funding requests to fix it, and the school is now full of mold and in danger of collapse. Photo illustration by Shoshana Gordon/ProPublica. Photos by Emily Schwing/KYUK, Michael Grabell/ProPublica hide caption…

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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

March 5, 2025 admin No Comments

In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the enemy.” The body of the email contained just one line — a link to Digg, a community-focused social message board where people shared and discussed news articles and links to…

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Sabrina Ionescu joins Bay FC ownership group: It’s ‘like a pinch-me moment’

March 5, 2025 admin No Comments

The last 12 months for Sabrina Ionescu have been like a movie. Last February, she lit up the NBA All-Star stage in a one-on-one 3-point shootout with her role model and friend Steph Curry of the Golden State Warriors. In June, the Sabrina 2 dropped, the second edition of her signature Nike shoe — embraced…

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Celebrating Mardi Gras with New Orleans clarinetist and vocalist Doreen Ketchens : NPR

March 5, 2025 admin No Comments

TONYA MOSLEY, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I’m Tonya Mosley. And if you’re ever in the French Quarter in New Orleans, chances are you’ve spotted my guest today, clarinetist and vocalist Doreen Ketchens. For over 30 years, she’s performed on the corner of Royal and St. Peter Street, four days a week, sometimes 12 hours…

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Bitcoin’s volatility drives record volumes for perpetual futures

March 5, 2025 admin No Comments

President Donald Trump’s surprise announcement about a strategic crypto reserve triggered an aggressive wave of volatility in the market. Bitcoin’s abrupt spikes and drops in the past several days had a pronounced effect on the futures market, driving trading volumes, shifts in open interests, and large-scale liquidations. Bitcoin’s perpetual futures (perps) overwhelmingly dominated trading activity…

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A Case for Turning Tulsa Into the Next Big Tech Hub

March 4, 2025 admin No Comments

What I discovered in Tulsa was that the Heartland encompasses the great middle of the country—not only in geographic terms but in societal, cultural, and even spiritual ones. For me, the Heartland represents midsize cities like Tulsa, middle-class citizens, and those striving to reach the middle class. “Whether the mythical heartland is celebrated or reviled,”…

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Inside a historic women’s hockey fight and why it changed PWHL rules: ‘We were battling out there’

March 4, 2025 admin No Comments

For almost a decade, Jill Saulnier was an energy line forward for the Canadian women’s national team, winning two Olympic medals and a world championship. Now she can add a new line to her resume: She threw the first real punches in the history of the Professional Women’s Hockey League, in a fight with Ottawa…

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What a Nervous Flier Hears

March 4, 2025 admin No Comments

Good morning, ladies and gentleman. This is your underpaid, overworked, and quite possibly going-through-a-divorce captain speaking, looking up from the game on my phone for two minutes to welcome you aboard this non-stop flight from Denver, Colorado, to Orlando, Florida. Our ground team has finished making their whirring, clicking, and loud sawing noises, and the…

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Bitcoin, Cardano, Solaxy Among Biggest Winners From Trump’s US Crypto Reserve Pledge

March 4, 2025 admin No Comments

The crypto market has been boosted after President Trump announced over the weekend that the U.S. is setting up a strategic crypto reserve. Investors went wild, sending coins like Bitcoin and Cardano soaring. Demand for the new Solana Layer-2 project Solaxy also spiked – taking its total presale fundraising past the $24.8 million mark. Trump’s…

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Foreign students are nervous about Trump’s executive orders : NPR

March 3, 2025 admin No Comments

Pro-Palestinian students hold up Palestinian flags during UMass Amherst graduation ceremonies in May 2024. They left the graduation event in protest. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It was billed as a “Palestine Night” gala and fundraiser, with proceeds going to families in…

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