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The hefty sums many billionaires give away place them in an age-old debate about wealth and charity – and whether it’s appropriate for donors to have a say over their wealth from the grave.
Is trying to pay zero taxes ok?
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A House committee released details of Trump’s tax returns from his time in office – and they show he paid zilch in 2020.
Voluntarios de Jolt, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a aumentar la participación cívica de los latinos en Texas, ríen durante una reunión de 2020.
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A former math teacher explains what’s behind the recent drop in math scores for the nation’s fourth and eighth graders.
Volunteers laugh during a 2020 meeting of Jolt, a nonprofit that works to increase civic participation of Latinos in Texas.
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Those who seek to cause harm are as capable of generating creative ideas as anyone else. Two psychologists and counterterrorism scholars suggest how not to overlook a new danger.
Agriculture is becoming increasingly dependent on technology.
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Bringing advanced technologies to the ancient practice of farming could help feed the world’s growing population, but it could also open the door for people looking to disrupt the global food system.
Rates are spiking in most comparable countries.
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Labor market disruptions, supply chain strains and the war in Ukraine have taken a toll everywhere.
Undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska Omaha collaborate on a group assignment for a STEM course.
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Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell is hoping to orchestrate a very delicate dance.
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As the national debate over LGBTQ rights continues, teachers in the Midwest are facing challenges similar to those facing their colleagues elsewhere in the US.
A U.S. Federal Marshal escorts Gail Etienne to her first day of school on Nov. 14, 1960.
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In the early 1960s, the McDonogh 19 school was the site of fierce opposition to racial integration. The building is now owned by one of the Black girls who first integrated the school.
Ukrainian refugees wait near the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico.
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Four scholars of race, religion and immigration explain how US refugee and asylum policy has long been racially and religiously discriminatory in practice.
California is seeing some of the highest gas prices in the U.S.
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The consumer price index, which measures everything from the price of peanut butter to gasoline, jumped at an annualized pace of 8.5% in March 2022 as inflation continued to accelerate.
Dari kiri: Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dan Joe Biden.
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The current conflict in Ukraine has three key leaders, each of whom uses a different approach to the crisis.
Experts believe that infants should get some interactive floor-based physical activity two to three times a day.
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