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Reading proficiency levels in American schools have fallen to a new low.

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This Phil Fountain cartoon was inspired by incidents that took place at the Jan. 28, 2025 Shasta County Board of Supervisors ...

Davy Crockett and Jimmy Hoffa both had plenty of attitude.

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Kamala Harris hasn’t made any public decisions about what her political future is going to be — but she has already created the organization that will help fuel it. The former vice president ...

Stripe, a payment technology company and the Bay Area’s second most valuable startup, sent layoff notices to 300 workers Monday - accidentally sending a cartoon picture along with the news.

The payments-software company Stripe accidentally emailed an image of a cartoon duck to some employees when notifying them that they had been laid off, Business Insider has learned. The company ...