I’m sick of reading how many millions everyone has. We have, maybe, $100,000 in the bank. I’m terrified I’ll be homeless when my husband stops working. He’s 76 and I’m retired. Our house is big, but ...

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After a rough night on the court against the New York Knicks, the young Orlando Magic star admitted he let the pressure get to him. His stepfather, a former Army drill sergeant, wasn't having it.

“Being homeless for so long was really depressing and stressful,” said Ayeasha, 47 and from London. “For the first couple of years, I didn’t realise how much it was affecting my son.” Now 14, ...

Thousands will gather to run and watch the Dallas Marathon as it winds through the city Sunday morning. While the weather was mild for those participating in the 5K & 10K runs Saturday, temperatures ...

Mr. Woodhouse is a documentary filmmaker and the author of the newsletter Social Studies. The war in Gaza turned school districts across California into battlegrounds over the Israeli-Palestinian ...

Sacramento city and county together earmarked $120 million in taxpayer money — from a mix of local, state and federal sources — on building and staffing eight homeless shelters with a total of about ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...

Hawaiʻi’s public schools have improved teacher retention and reduced vacancy rates since the Covid-19 pandemic, but are relying heavily on emergency hires. The Department of Education is hiring fewer ...