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A lot of elementary school educators hate the prospect of teaching math, even when the concepts are beginner-level

Vermont’s agriculture secretary says since the July flooding, farmers have reported over $16 million in damage and losses

In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are ‘deeply troubled’ that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it

The effort has gone on for more than two years and at times veered into vandalism and violence, as they fear the Atlanta-area training center will lead to greater militarization of the police and that its construction will exacerbate environmental damage

It was less than an hour from the time that the FAA issued a bulletin about United’s ground stop until the agency said that flights were resuming — shortly before 2 p.m. Eastern time

Released Tuesday and written by Franklin Foer, a staff writer for The Atlantic, the book says Biden said Obama was unable to deliver a ‘f—- you’ with ‘the right elongation of vowels and the necessary hardness of consonants’

Small towns have such a hard time finding qualified candidates for job openings that some are disbanding their departments

The GOP leader froze up last week during a press conference in Kentucky, unable to respond to a question, the second such episode in a month

Event organizers said they started to let traffic flow out on the main road around 2 p.m. local time Monday — even as they urged attendees to delay their exit to help ease traffic

The embattled Republican — one of former President Donald Trump’s biggest defenders — entered the state Senate on Tuesday to face accusations of bribery and corruption

Trump’s strength comes despite — or perhaps because of — multiple criminal indictments threatening to overshadow any serious debate about the future of the country

In a letter sent Tuesday the attorneys general urged federal lawmakers to establish a commission to study “the means and methods of AI that can be used to exploit children”

Courtney O’Donnell is Biden’s choice to become the U.S. permanent representative to the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO

The unprecedented attempt to impeach and remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz from office comes as the court is being asked to throw out legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature

The only Black GOP presidential candidate campaigning aggressively in the early-voting state, is betting that his upbeat message of personal responsibility, wrapped in the Christian faith he comfortably cites, is a good fit for Iowa Republicans

The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death happened during the event but offered few details as the investigation continued, including the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause of death

Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map

Biden, when asked about his rival’s absence, said he was not disappointed by the turn of events, but welcomed the presence of Rick Scott, one of the state’s two Republican U.S. senators

Authorities haven’t disclosed the circumstances of how Danelo Cavalcante managed to escape Thursday morning, and say the episode is under investigation

The Supreme Court in May reversed the wire fraud conspiracy conviction of former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, ruling jury instructions were too vague

An effort to guarantee access to abortion rights in Ohio, a November ballot measure, is already fueling misleading claims about how it could influence abortion care, gender-related health care and parental consent in the state

The historic proceedings set to start in the state Senate Tuesday are the most serious threat yet to one of Texas’ most powerful figures after nine years engulfed by criminal charges, scandal and accusations of corruption

Idalia made landfall Wednesday morning along Florida’s sparsely populated Big Bend region as a Category 3 storm, causing widespread flooding and damage before moving north to drench Georgia and the Carolinas

The 10-square-mile (25-square-kilometer) oil and gas lease in the mountainous Badger-Two Medicine area of northwestern Montana was issued in 1982 but has not been developed

He joins the former president and at least 10 others in forgoing a trip to Atlanta to appear before a judge in a packed courtroom with a news camera rolling

The mandate is a pillar of a safety bill signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who rejected calls this year for gun control despite angry pleas from parents

Breaking ground on this project marks a major milestone as the United States looks to make good on promises to address climate change and bolster the nation’s already overwhelmed power grids