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Students on phones
Global

Students are so glued to their phones that 17 states are cracking down with ‘bell-to-bell’ bans for this school year

By Jeff Amy and The Associated Press
August 21, 2025
Young man wearing headphones working on computer at startup office
Success

A quarter of Gen Zers have followed ChatGPT’s career advice—and just 3% have regrets

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August 19, 2025
Back to school shopping
Economy

‘I am overwhelmed by the need to stay on top of where the deals are’: Back-to-school shopping turns into China tariff-dodging exercise

By Anne D'Innocenzio and The Associated Press
August 13, 2025
School notebooks in a Target store
Retail

Fearing tariff-induced price hikes, parents are back-to-school shopping earlier than any year on record

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August 6, 2025
Businessman working on a laptop
Success

Google’s head of Android once cold-emailed the $2 trillion tech giant’s cofounder Sergey Brin for college advice—instead, he got a job offer

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July 15, 2025
school supplies at Target
Retail

Target is maintaining 2024 prices on back-to-school items in the aftermath of boycotts

By Alex Vuocolo and Retail Brew
June 30, 2025
Matthew Prince gestures
Success

CEO of $40 billion Cloudflare wishes he had taken a job offer at Microsoft or Yahoo before going to law school

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April 25, 2025
A kid picks a pair of Crocs off a vertical display shelf.
Retail

Gen Alpha keeps tripping and falling over their own Crocs, so schools are banning the shoes over safety concerns

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October 28, 2024
A young teenager sits on the floor near a row of lockers with his backpack next to him
Lifestyle

Gen Alpha is stealing zipper pulls from Nike backpacks to resell them to victims at hiked-up prices

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September 27, 2024
College student studies in classroom.
Newsletters

One company paying out $7.7 million in employee tuition benefits says one change to their program made a huge engagement difference

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September 25, 2024
New COVID vaccine in its box
Health

FDA approves updated COVID-19 vaccines, shots should be available in days

By The Associated Press and Lauran Neergaard
August 22, 2024
African American mother measuring sick son's temperature while talking to the doctor over the phone.
Life

COVID guidelines have changed. Here’s when a sick kid can return to school

By Cheyanne Mumphrey and The Associated Press
August 19, 2024
school kids meditating in class
Features

Millions of kids are skipping school. Could the answer be recess — or giving them cash?

By Jocelyn Gecker, Bianca Vázquez Toness, Sharon Lurye and The Associated Press
August 15, 2024
Zum founder Ritu Narayan explains why she wants to disrupt student transport: ‘As a parent, it is frustrating when you don’t know where the bus is’
Tech

Zum founder Ritu Narayan explains why she wants to disrupt student transport: ‘As a parent, it is frustrating when you don’t know where the bus is’

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August 10, 2024
‘Twisters’ star Glen Powell isn’t letting billion-dollar Hollywood hits stop his plans to graduate college
Success

‘Twisters’ star Glen Powell isn’t letting billion-dollar Hollywood hits stop his plans to graduate college

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July 23, 2024

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