Papua New Guinea said on Friday that Alphabet's Google will build three subsea cables, funded by Australia under a mutual defence treaty, in a key upgrade to the digital backbone of the biggest ...

Mr. Conwright is a writer focused on U.S. history. After the Civil War, many intellectuals believed that illiteracy among Southerners who did not own slaves had allowed them to be swindled by the ...

On the Tuesday, December 2, 2025 episode of The Excerpt podcast: Trump’s latest Education Department moves target some of the agency's most important programs. From Title I to special education to ...

Even beyond the pendulum lurches between presidencies, many of the perennial debates over education policy, politics, and governance in the United States seem to carry echoes of the distant past: Will ...

Pascarella: Shifting America’s largest K-12 program threatens low-income students across every region of the country ...

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren wrote an op-ed in USA Today calling for Education Secretary Linda McMahon to resign, following the Trump administration’s announcement earlier this month of an ...

Shortly after she was sworn in, I invited Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to my office. I looked her dead in the eye and asked, “Now, I just want to be clear, do you think you can shut down the ...

A coalition of states that sued months ago to stop mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Education is now also challenging the department’s recent moves to shift many of its core functions to the U.S ...

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The Uttarakhand Cabinet on Wednesday approved a slew of decisions, including reducing value-added tax (VAT) on natural gas to five per cent and doubling the monthly old-age pension for writers and ...

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