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Over the years, vouchers have often been marketed as providing quality choices for public school students. Yet a growing number of researchers say this educational experiment has evolved largely into middle-class subsidies.

A lack of mental health care access affects an estimated 122 million Americans across parts of all 50 states. Significant cuts to Medicaid and ACA health plans are expected to increase that number in the coming years.

Red Cross experts urge people to make plans before severe weather strikes, stay connected with charged phones and extra batteries and a working radio, prepare water and supplies and coordinate with neighbors and others when possible.

Instead of a statewide ban, Senate Bill No. 4 in the 2026 Louisiana Regular Legislative Session would allow customers in each individual water system, with more than 5,000 service connections, to vote if they want their water supply to remain fluoridated.

This is not a statewide ban. But the law does stipulate that only donated posters, or posters bought through voluntary contributions, may be posted if such community efforts take place at other school districts.

Lawmakers must walk a financial tightrope not to jeopardize three-quarters of a billion dollars in federal funding, while attempting to rein in artificial intelligence systems from becoming too invasive to our everyday lives.

More than 160,000 students have applied thus far, with officials saying priority is given to students with disabilities and those in low and middle-income families. Yet critics contend vouchers inevitably become a subsidy for the wealthy.

Controversy now surrounds the violence which broke out immediately after the Erika Kirk event between supporters and protesters outside the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion on Wednesday, with a trooper injured, and several arrests made.

Current law says custodial parents cannot relocate more than 75 miles away from the other parent without their permission. But how the mileage is calculated is left to a judge’s discretion.

University of Arkansas Professor Shirin Saeidi, Ph.D., was suspended for social media posts about Israel, Gaza and Iran, and recommended for firing in December.