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By EDEN STIFFMAN of The Chronicle of Philanthropy Chronicle of Philanthropy While grantmakers have historically put more resources into elementary and secondary education than early childhood, support for the youngest learners is on the rise. From 2006 to 2013, foundations overall gave at least $4.6 billion to support early-childhood education, according to data from Candid.
Continue ReadingBy Paul R. La Monica, CNN Business The saga of struggling retailer Bed Bath & Beyond keeps getting curiouser and curiouser. Shares of the company have surged more than 60% in the past week and soared nearly 250% in the past month thanks to meme investors on Reddit. Those self proclaimed “apes” have been touting
Continue Reading By MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes in a deal with prosecutors that could potentially make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall. Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg pleaded guilty to
Continue Reading By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. housing market has gone from red-hot to decidedly tepid since the spring, though you wouldn’t know it by this summer’s sharp rebound in homebuilder’s stocks. The rally by homebuilders follows a pullback in mortgage rates since June, suggesting investors are already looking ahead
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Patrick Swayze would have turned 70 on Thursday if it were not for the pancreatic cancer he died from in 2009. The “Dirty Dancing” star was one of the first public figures to reveal he had the disease, the same one that Alex Trebek and Steve Jobs died from. Swayze was diagnosed
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey “The Wonder Years” actress Danica McKellar left acting to pursue a mathematics career and now she’s explaining why. McKellar’s young son Draco recently interviewed his mom for ET, asking her, “You were about my age when you acted in ‘The Wonder Years.’ What do you remember most about those years?” McKellar said
Continue ReadingBy Brandon Miller, Judson Jones and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The flash drought conditions expanded and intensified in New England over the past week, according to the latest report from the US Drought Monitor. Extreme drought — level 3 out of 4 — now covers parts of eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut and the entire state of Rhode
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macamilarincon (CNN) — Allen Weisselberg, exdirector financiero de la Organización Trump, se declaró culpable este jueves de su participación en un plan de fraude fiscal que se extendió por 15 años. Y, como parte del acuerdo, accedió a testificar en juicio contra la compañía de bienes raíces del expresidente Donald Trump. Ante la corte, Weisselberg
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza Chautauqua, Nueva York (CNN) — El sospechoso acusado de apuñalar a Salman Rushdie fue puesto en prisión preventiva sin fianza, y se dictaron órdenes temporales de protección para los oradores que supuestamente atacó en la institución de Chautauqua. Además, se declaró inocente. Las órdenes temporales de protección dictadas para Rushdie y Ralph
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The chance of thunderstorms is increasing as we move into the weekend, with higher humidity in the region. That atmospheric moisture is only expected to increase over the next 48 hours. An area of low pressure is pushing that monsoonal moisture closer to the Valley. On Friday, we’ll see a significant surge in that monsoonal
Continue ReadingBy Kara Scannell, CNN Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in a 15-year-long tax fraud scheme, and as part of the deal he has agreed to testify against former President Donald Trump’s real estate company at trial. In court Thursday, Weisselberg said, “Yes, your
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By MATTHEW BROWN and MICHAEL PHILLIS Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. oil industry hit a legal roadblock in January when a judge struck down a $192 million oil and natural gas lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico over future global warming emissions from burning the fuels. It came at a pivotal
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By Rebekah Riess and Holly Yan, CNN A brain-eating amoeba typically found in freshwater lakes and rivers may have killed a child in what would be Nebraska’s first known death from the parasite, health officials said. The child, whose age was not disclosed, died this week in Douglas County, its health department said. The child
Continue Reading Melissa Velásquez Loaiza (CNN) — Pensándolo bien, quizá sea mejor no pasar la sal. Agregar sal a tu comida en la mesa se asocia con una menor esperanza de vida y un mayor riesgo de muerte prematura, según un nuevo estudio. El estudio analizó a más de 500.000 personas en el Biobanco del Reino Unido
Continue Reading By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Amber Escudero-Kontostathis is the only survivor of a deadly lightning strike outside the White House earlier this month, and despite going through something so life-changing and suffering nerve damage, she said she’s recovering quickly. Escudero-Kontostathis, 28, and three other victims were riding out a thunderstorm underneath a tree in Lafayette Park
Continue Reading SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Heat advisories remained in effect Thursday in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and adjacent areas but managers of California’s power grid did not repeat the previous day’s call for voluntary conservation of electricity. Widespread triple-digit temperatures were again predicted, along with high humidity, raising the risk of heat-related illnesses, the
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Mortgage rates ticked lower last week, falling back toward the 5% mark following economic reports that indicated inflation might have finally peaked. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5.13% in the week ending August 18, down from 5.22% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. Despite the latest drop, rates are
Continue ReadingBy Marianne Garvey Demi Lovato has released her latest single, “29,” and it’s speculated the song is about the age difference she had with her former boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama. The actor was 29 when he began dating Lovato, who was 17 at the time. Lovato explained the lyrics in an Apple Music interview, saying “the
Continue ReadingBy Anna Bahney, CNN Business Home sales declined for the sixth month in a row in July as higher mortgage rates and prices push prospective buyers out of the market. Nevertheless, home prices continued to climb by double-digit percentages during the month. The median home price was $403,800 in July, up 10.8% from a year
Continue ReadingBy Web staff Click here for updates on this story UMATILLA, Oregon (KPTV) — A shootout with police at Wildhorse Casino and Resort left the shooter and a bystander injured Wednesday afternoon. The Umatilla Confederated Tribes said police intercepted an armed gunman who attempted a robbery at the door around 1 p.m. Wednesday. A shootout
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