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DC parents get hands-on look at how kids learn math, as city receives multimillion-dollar donation 11/14/2025 05:19am • Even before the formal presentation started at D.C.'s Noyes Elementary on Thursday night, students were eager to show off. They bounced from one table to another, rolling dice, flipping coins and adding up the numbers on playing cards. Their parents watched over their shoulders. During D.C. Pu Takeaways from AP's story on the links between eviction and school 11/14/2025 03:42am • ATLANTA (AP) — When families are evicted, it can lead to major disruptions to their children's schooling. Federal law includes provisions to help homeless and evicted kids stay at their schools, but families don't always know about them — and schools don't always share the information. Beyond t Getting the story: How an AP reporter chronicled a sensitive story about school and eviction 11/14/2025 03:25am • ATLANTA (AP) — As an education reporter, I’ve heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix. I wanted to understand better how the rising cost of housing and the prevalence of evictio She wanted to keep her son in his school district. It was more challenging than it seemed 11/14/2025 03:23am • ATLANTA (AP) — It was the worst summer in years. Sechita McNair’s family took no vacations. Her younger boys didn’t go to camp. Her van was repossessed, and her family nearly got evicted — again. But she accomplished the one thing she wanted most. A few weeks before school started, McNair, a LISTEN: Bills' Damar Hamlin says he was built to handle adversity even before cardiac arrest 11/13/2025 08:29pm • Bills safety Damar Hamlin talks about overcoming a cardiac arrest on the field nearly three years ago, how he’s helping his teammates now while sidelined with another injury and his upcoming role in a Christmas movie. Various NFL Players: Hey, this is Russell Wilson. This is Joe Montana. This is D Florida man executed for the 1979 killing of a girl, 6, who was abducted from her bedroom 11/13/2025 08:07pm • STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A man convicted of the 1979 killing a 6-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom was put to death Thursday evening in a record 16th execution in Florida this year. Bryan Frederick Jennings, 66, was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m. following a three-drug injection at Florida Johns Hopkins University eliminating tuition for most students 11/13/2025 07:07pm • Johns Hopkins University will be eliminating tuition for undergraduate students from families that make up to $200,000 a year, starting next year, the university announced Thursday. Thanks to a $1.8 billion donation in 2018 by Michael Bloomberg, an alumnus of the Baltimore university, and continu 15 Things to Look for When Touring a Senior Living Facility 11/13/2025 07:00pm • You probably wouldn't buy a house sight unseen if you knew you would spend the majority of your golden years there. Similarly, don't commit to a senior living facility until you've researched and toured multiple options to find the right atmosphere for you or your loved one. To help you narrow down Don't Get Grounded Abroad Because You Don't Have the Right Credit Card 11/13/2025 07:00pm • As if the fallout of the government shutdown weren't enough to deal with, now travelers might have to worry about getting stranded if they don't have the right credit card on them. In September, Herb Weisbaum, otherwise known as The ConsumerMan, was almost stranded at the London Heathrow airport whe Families brace for continued gaps in Head Start service despite government reopening 11/13/2025 04:53pm • Vital federal funding is on the way for Head Start centers that were thrown into crisis by the government shutdown, but it could take time before some children who rely on the federal program can return to preschool. Some centers that missed out on federal payments had to furlough staff. Others had Faroe Islands part-timers and crime novelist coach are dreaming of the World Cup 11/13/2025 03:39pm • With a population of 55,000, a coach who writes crime novels and a squad of part-time players, tiny Faroe Islands has a stunning shot at qualifying for the World Cup. The odds are still stacked against the team ranked 127th by FIFA. But it has defied the odds to be in contention. Even beating mighty For DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival, closure of Dulles Expo Center is bittersweet goodbye 11/13/2025 03:22pm • The DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival is taking place this weekend in Chantilly, Virginia, giving a platform for 200 small businesses to show off what they have to offer to thousands of people. But this year's chocolatey festival is bittersweet. It's the last time the event will be held at the What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War 11/13/2025 02:47pm • TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Students in Florida's public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War fight against communism that is steeped in the rhetoric of that era, after state education officials voted to approve sweeping new social studies teaching standards Cash App's Moneybot might know your spending habits better than you do 11/13/2025 01:28pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Imagine if your bank could move money for you with only the slightest of digital nods for your approval. Or that could tell you that you’re overspending but more importantly know how to address that overspending and put you on better financial footing. That’s what you’ll get Families of two babies sickened by infantile botulism sue ByHeart over recalled formula 11/13/2025 01:24pm • The parents of at least two babies sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak are suing the makers of the ByHeart baby formula at the heart of a nationwide recall. Stephen and Yurany Dexter, of Flagstaff, Arizona, said their 4-month-old daughter, Rose, had to be flown by air ambulance to a childrenâ