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New Mexico awards $2M contract for 'academic coaches'
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico education officials are on track to renew a $2 million contract for a Utah-based education company to call and text struggling students, usually when they’ve been chronically absent from school. State and school district officials...
#MeToo poll: Many in US more willing to call out misconduct
Americans have watched a public reckoning unfold since 2017 as the #MeToo movement exposed the enduring prevalence of sexual assault and harassment in people's lives. A string of powerful men were taken down in its wake. But has the movement changed their own lives in...
#MeToo, 4 years in: ‘I’d like to think now, we are believed’
NEW YORK (AP) — To Charlotte Bennett, the new book that arrived at her Manhattan apartment this week — Anita Hill’s “Believing” — was more than just a look at gender violence. It was a dispatch from a fellow member of a very specific sisterhood — women who...
David Flanagan, longtime Central Maine Power executive, dies
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — David Flanagan, who was at the helm of Maine’s largest electric utility during the disastrous 1998 ice storm, served as president of the University of Southern Maine and returned to lead the utility out of a series of missteps, has died. He was 74. ...
Mexican science board tells researchers: don't criticize
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s newly politicized government science board has reportedly ordered researchers not to publicly criticize the body, and said they have to clear any public comments through its press office. The council was already under fire after it helped...
US, Pakistani officials in strained talks over Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. and Pakistani officials held difficult talks on Friday in Pakistan's capital amid a worsening relationship between Washington and Islamabad as each searches for a way forward in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. The meeting between Washington’s deputy...
PM Andrej Babis front-runner in Czech vote, despite scandals
PRAGUE (AP) — Czechs begin voting Friday in a parliamentary election with polls showing Prime Minister Andrej Babis, a populist billionaire, has a good chance of keeping his job despite a new scandal over his financial dealings. Two days of balloting are being held to...
Americans agree misinformation is a problem, poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all Americans agree that the rampant spread of misinformation is a problem. Most also think social media companies, and the people that use them, bear a good deal of blame for the situation. But few are very concerned that they themselves might...
Editorial Roundup: New York
Advance Media New York. October 3, 2021. Editorial: Why a computer chip factory is not another Amazon Central New York is reportedly getting closer to attracting a semiconductor factory to the White Pine Commerce Park in Clay, bringing 3,000 to 5,000...
Candidates for lt. gov. spar in debate, welcome Biden to NJ
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Democrat and Republican running for lieutenant governor in this year's election clashed over COVID-19 vaccination requirements and a handful of other issues, but they both agreed they'd welcome President Joe Biden to the campaign trail — though for different...
