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Good Shepherd Food Bank President Heather Paquette says that's an increase of 41,000 residents since 2022.
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The current chancellor of the UMaine System Dannel Malloy will help lead an international committee advocating against the death penalty. While governor of Connecticut in 2015, Malloy signed legislation abolishing capital punishment in the state.
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The school says it plans to use a new $10 million to add computational techniques throughout its curriculum, and to launch new applied fields of study in areas such as environmental engineering and public health.
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Actively mined areas would be limited to five acres, and would require water monitoring, land restoration and "dark sky" standards.
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Nicole and James Herling, the sister and brother-in-law of Robert Card II, broke down as they began their testimony by apologizing to the victims of the shootings that killed 18 and injured more than a dozen others.
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For decades now, electric vehicles have seemed like the next big thing. But the road to building out a reliable charging network has been bumpy.
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Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action.
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An art installation called The Portal was shut down this week in New York and Dublin because of rude gestures and other bad public behavior, as NPR's Scott Simon explains.
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Since the pandemic, chronic absenteeism in the nation's K-12 schools has skyrocketed. These teens are working to get their attendance back on track.
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At the height of the racial reckoning, a school district in Virginia voted to rename two schools that had been previously named for Confederate generals. This month, that decision was reversed.
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Students arrested at Columbia University and the City College of New York spoke with NPR about their choice to risk legal and academic consequences.
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