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1 week ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
The Trump administration’s anti-diversity policies are threatening to upend a bipartisan push to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to build museums dedicated to women and Latinos on the National Mall — additions President Trump approved in his first term.
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1 week ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
- The Washington Times - Teenage girls led a 60% jump in the number of Americans reporting clinical depression symptoms from 2013 to 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday.
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1 week ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
All Smithsonian Institution employees will return to the office five days a week starting the day after Easter. Smithsonian chief spokesperson Linda St. Thomas, said the order affects thousands of workers in the federal trust’s 21 museums, research facilities and the National Zoo who have worked at least part-time from home since the pandemic. The institution employs roughly 6,000 people.
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1 week ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
Researchers at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas have discovered evidence that Type 2 diabetes “rewires” the brain in ways similar to early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. They found in a federally funded study that eight male lab rats with diabetic blood sugar levels were more anxious than healthy rodents to receive a sweet treat and less likely to savor it after getting one.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
The U.S. Postal Service has proposed raising the price of a first-class stamp from 73 to 78 cents on July 13, resuming hikes that the agency says offset inflation. USPS said the increase is “needed to achieve the financial stability sought by” its “Delivering for America” plan for 10 years of periodic rate hikes, which former Postmaster General Louis DeJoy announced in 2021. “USPS prices remain among the most affordable in the world,” the federal service said.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
The number of college degree earners fell for the third straight year after inching upward for seven years, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported Thursday. The education nonprofit found the tally of four-year bachelor’s degrees granted in the 2023-24 academic year dropped by 24,631 to 1.9 million, the lowest level since 2015-16. The count of two-year associate’s degrees awarded declined by 7,862 to 821,445, a 10-year low.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
- The Washington Times - Top colleges are spurning politics in their choices of commencement speakers as the first year of President Trump’s second term unfolds. Keynote speakers announced in recent weeks for the class of 2025 range from R&B singer Usher to Kermit the Frog, with hardly a member of the Trump administration or former Biden team in sight.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
Traffic fatalities last year dropped to their lowest rate since before the pandemic, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported Tuesday. The agency, part of the Transportation Department, said preliminary data from the Federal Highway Administration found 1.2 people died for every 100 million vehicle miles traveled in 2024, the lowest since 2019, even as the number of miles driven increased by 1%.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
- The Washington Times - A nagging ignorance of fundamentals among K-12 teachers has contributed to historic declines in U.S. math performance, according to two recent studies.
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2 weeks ago | 
washingtontimes.com | Sean Salai
California’s $20 minimum wage for fast food workers has cost the state a significant number of jobs since it took effect a year ago, according to separate reports. The analyses from Pepperdine University and the Employment Policies Institute chalked up the workforce losses to fast food franchises cutting staff, raising prices and fleeing the state to offset increased payroll expenses after the wage increase became law in April 2024.
