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Education Spending Bill; Yale Discrimination Investigation; Faults In Student Loan Forgiveness

New Education Budget; Yale Discrimination Investigation; Faults In Loan Forgiveness

Also in our weekly education news roundup: 6 ways to talk to your kids about sex after Kavanaugh; Homeschooling is growing and changing rapidly

Andrew Urdiales is shown in custody Friday, April 25, 1997, at Area 2 police headquarters in Chicago.

Jurors Recommend Death Penalty for Ex-Marine Who Killed 5 SoCal Women

An Orange County jury recommended the death penalty Wednesday for a former Marine who killed five women in Southern California and is already serving a life prison term in Illinois for three murders in Chicago.

Cheryl Chandler says she happened to click on a viral video showing a woman wearing a hospital gown, not knowing it showed her 22-year-old daughter, Rebecca. She has mental health issues and was left outside a Baltimore hospital on a cold January night. The video recorded by a passer-by went viral.

'Failing Patients': Baltimore Video Highlights Crisis Of Emergency Psychiatric Care

A viral video is drawing attention to a problem in hospital emergency rooms across the country. More and more patients with urgent psychiatric conditions aren't receiving the care they need.

In 2017, birthrates fell by 4 percent both for women 20 to 24 years old and for women 25 to 29, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. Births Dip To 30-Year Low; Fertility Rate Sinks Further Below Replacement Level

The results put the U.S. further away from a viable replacement rate — the standard for a generation being able to replicate its numbers.

Trader Edward Curran (left) and specialist James Denaro on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Tuesday. The political turmoil in Italy sent stocks down sharply.

Stocks Plummet Amid Fears About Italy's Political Crisis

The possibility that Italy might consider leaving the eurozone is spooking a lot of investors in the United States and elsewhere.

The Supreme Court has ruled previously that police cannot search the private area around a house without a warrant, but the question here was whether the warrant requirement applied to motor vehicles parked within that area.

In Win For Privacy Rights, Court Says Police Need Warrant To Search Area Around Home

The Supreme Court reversed a conviction that came after an officer looked at a motorcycle under a tarp outside a private residence — without a warrant.

President Trump's Twitter account was down for about 11 minutes early this month.

Man Who Deactivated Trump's Twitter Account: 'I Didn't Break Any Rules'

TechCrunch has tracked down the former Twitter employee who claims to be responsible for the famous 11-minute outage. He's a 20-something from Germany who says it was all just a mistake.

Kristen Philman first tried methamphetamine in her early 20s, as an alternative to heroin and other opioids. When she discovered she was pregnant, she says, it was a wake-up call, and she did what she needed to do to stop using all those drugs.

Another Drug Crisis: Methamphetamine Use By Pregnant Women

As illegal meth use has made a comeback across the U.S., pregnant women have not been spared, doctors say. New research shows rural areas in the South, Midwest and West have been hit hardest.

Residue from tobacco smoke can end up in indoor air even in nonsmoking spaces.

Tobacco Smoke Residue Can Become Airborne Again Indoors

Researchers have found that residue stuck on smokers' clothes, furniture or other surfaces can become airborne and pollute indoor air.

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