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Devon Wells, a junior at Perry Central High School, welds a metal calf feeder at Halo Farms, where he works, on March 12, 2025, in Perry, N.Y. (AP Photo/Lauren Petracca)

For Gen Zers in rural counties, lack of a college degree is no career obstacle. ‘My stress is picking an option, not finding an option’

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

FILE – Students sit on the front steps of Low Memorial Library on the Columbia University campus in New York City, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Columbia University will pay over $220 million in deal with Trump to restore federal research money

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

FILE – In this July 10, 2013, file photo, prospective students tour Georgetown University’s campus in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

University of Rochester PhD student from South Asia says it feels too risky to even be seen near a political protest during Trump higher ed crackdown

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

Salman Rushdie is pictured against a black background

Salman Rushdie will take the stand in the trial of his alleged attacker, who stabbed him in the hands, liver, and eye

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

FILE – New York Police officers collect seized merchandise at an illegal cannabis shop during an enforcement action, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

New York City law used to padlock suspected illegal marijuana shops is unconstitutional, judge rules

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

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Some schools are going beyond cell phone bans

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Anthony Fauci speaks with microphone

Anthony Fauci is recovering from West Nile virus after hospital stay

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators embrace while charging devices at an encampment on the UCLA campus Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

Almost 2,200 have been arrested during pro-Palestinian college protests as police use riot gear, tactical vehicles and flash-bang devices

By Julie Watson, Christopher L. Keller, and others

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 1: NYPD officers talk to the driver of a car who sped past a pro-Palestinian demonstration outside The City College Of New York (CUNY) one day after police cracked down on protest camps at both Columbia University and CCNY on May 1, 2024 in New York City. A heavy police presence surrounded both campuses on Tuesday and cleared the tent encampments set up by pro-Palestinian protesters. Classes at both schools have been moved virtually to online learning in response to the recent campus unrest. (Photo by Alex Kent/Getty Images)

NYPD officer fired a gun while removing barricaded college students from hall, prosecutors confirmed

By Ryan Pearson, Julie Watson, and others

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Hundreds of college students arrested nationwide as Gaza protests escalate into social justice crisis

By Christopher Weber, Carolyn Thompson, and others

Second-grade student Jose Byrd (black t-shirt with sun) and classmates try out eclipse viewing glasses that they decorated at Riverside Elementary School in Cleveland on March 14, 2024. Teachers in or near the path of totality say they have worked to come up with educational and engaging lessons for the rare event. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)

‘A teachable moment’: Science teachers are using the upcoming solar eclipse to make a point

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

BATH, UNITED KINGDOM – JANUARY 26: A 12-year-old boy looks at a iPhone screen on January 26, 2024 in Bath, England. The amount of time children spend on screens each day rocketed during the Covid pandemic by more than 50 per cent, the equivalent of an extra hour and twenty minutes. Researchers say that unmoderated screen time can have long-lasting effects on a child’s mental and physical health. Recently TikTok announced that every account belonging to a user below age 18 have a 60-minute daily screen time limit automatically set. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

New York City is suing Meta, TikTok, Snap and Google for promoting ‘addictive and dangerous’ social media that fuel a childhood mental health crisis

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

Crews work to deice an airplane at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado

Almost 3,000 flights canceled and 110,000 businesses and homes without power after massive cold blast slams U.S.

By Carolyn Thompson, Matthew Brown, and others

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reads a statement about the situation at the border during Question Period on Nov. 22 in Ottawa, Ontario. Two people were found dead in a vehicle that exploded at a checkpoint on the American side of a U.S.-Canada bridge in Niagara Falls, Wednesday, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.

Officials taking vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge border crossing ‘extraordinarily seriously,’ Trudeau tells Parliament

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press

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Boys keep failing to do as well graduating high school as girls, baffling experts: ‘It’s not a structural racism issue’

By Carolyn Thompson and The Associated Press