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You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

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Virginia Beach ambulances without lights and sirens? Emergency vehicles are going dark and silent. He came for a drug debt. He shot a barrage at the home. A Newport News teen was killed in a bedroom.

After a historic regular season and a Finals run that had plenty of people penciling in Oklahoma City as the 2025 champs, ...

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world “Dilbert,” is suffering mightily in the final throes of cancer. After he ...

It's among the top 10 words on the 50th annual "Banished Words List" that Lake Superior State University released this week.

From TikTok slang to generational eye-roll: what “6–7” really means, where it came from, and why one small-town editor just ...

We've dug up 10 classic Christmas cartoons that are blasts from the past. Some you may recognize, others might be "hidden gems" for you to discover. So slip into those Christmas pajamas and climb on ...

THE ARRIVAL of the New Year reminds us that the 2026 General Election is closer than it feels. It will inevitably happen.

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

A New Jersey mom found herself so confused by her six-year-old daughter’s math homework, she had to ask the teacher for help. The school year is a stressful time for parents. A 2025 Ipsos survey of ...