Adam Skyles stood at the entrance to Leodis V. McDaniel High School, clad in a navy shirt bearing the school’s name. As ninth-graders trickled through the parking lot Wednesday morning, Skyles, now entering his third year as principal, made eye contact and greeted them outside the newly remodeled building where […]
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‘I want to collaborate:’ McDaniel High students overjoyed to be back in class full-time on 1st day of school in Portland
Adam Skyles stood at the entrance to Leodis V. McDaniel High School, clad in a navy shirt bearing the school’s name. As ninth-graders trickled through the parking lot Wednesday morning, Skyles, now entering his third year as principal, made eye contact and greeted them outside the newly remodeled building where […]
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The Latest: S Korea exceeds 2,000 daily cases for 1st time
A construction crew works to set up tents that hospital officials plan to use with an overflow of COVID-19 patients outside of Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, in Houston. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/Houston Chronicle via AP) Godofredo A. Vásquez AP SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s daily increase […]
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Haaland OK’d at Interior, 1st Native American Cabinet head
FILE – In this Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., listens during the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on her nomination to be Interior secretary, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Some Republican senators labeled Haaland “radical” over her calls to reduce dependence on […]
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Ancestor of 1st Black California elections chief never voted
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shirley Weber, soon to become the first Black woman to serve as California’s top elections officer, will come to work with a deeply personal perspective about protecting the right to vote: Her grandfather never voted in the rural South decades ago. Weber, a state legislator and […]
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Biden’s 1st Cabinet picks expected Tuesday amid roadblocks
President-elect Joe Biden leaves St. Ann Parish, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. Alex Brandon AP WILMINGTON, Del. President-elect Joe Biden’s first Cabinet picks are coming Tuesday and planning is underway for a pandemic-modified inauguration in January as his team moves forward despite roadblocks from the Trump administration. Ron […]
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For 1st Time in 3 Decades, Military Families and Retirees Are Getting Revamped IDs
The military is ditching flimsy laminated paper-based ID cards for military retirees and dependents for an all-new card system: the Next Generation Uniform Services Identification Card. According to a Defense Department announcement published Monday, the cards, which represent the first ID update for these military communities since 1993, will be […]