‘Oh My God’: Vinny Mauri Ran His First Marathon—and Became the 4th-Fastest American Marathoner Ever!

How a 25-year-old amateur without a coach or shoe deal shocked the world with a 2:05:54 finish at the Glass City Marathon in ...
MIT Technology Review

NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work?

Just before Artemis II began its historic slingshot around the moon, Jared Isaacman, the recently confirmed NASA ...
The Connecticut Mirror

Lamont backs off plan to sunset Community First Choice home care program

Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration is backing off a proposal to overhaul the state’s Community First Choice (CFC) program. The state Medicaid plan has been in place since 2015. Under the service, people ...
Orange County Register

First-gen California homebuyers can soon apply for $150,000 down payment loans

California will focus again on first-generation homebuyers later this month during its roughly $200 million rollout of the down payment assistance program known as Dream for All. From Feb. 24 to March ...
Forbes

The Leadership Shift Required When Your Mission Serves People, Not Programs

Chris Simonsen is the CEO of Orangewood Foundation, a leading provider of youth and young adult programs and services in Orange County. In the nonprofit sector, we spend a lot of time talking about ...
The Conversation

First Nations rehabilitation programs aren’t keeping people out of prison. Here’s what would help

There are unprecedented numbers of First Nations people in prisons. In Australia, 37% of adults and 60% of young people aged 10-17 behind bars are First Nations, despite making up 3.4% and 6.2% of the ...
Wall Street Journal

First-Time Car Buyer Programs: What They Are and Where to Get One

These programs make car buying more accessible for those with limited or no credit history Written By Written by Staff Loan Writer, Buy Side Bob Haegele is a staff loan writer at Buy Side covering ...
The Baltimore Sun

Salisbury shifts homelessness policy away from Housing First model

Salisbury is shifting course on homelessness policy, abandoning the “Housing First” model launched under former Mayor Jake Day for a transitional approach that Mayor Randy Taylor says will help serve ...
Fox News

Air taxis in the US could launch this summer

For years, air taxis felt like one of those "almost here" technologies. You have seen the sleek designs. You have heard the promises. Quiet flights. Lower costs. No traffic. And yet, nothing. Now, ...
The Southern Illinoisan

Illinois continues first-in-nation free test prep program

The Illinois Student Assistance Commission and global education company Kaplan announced that Illinois’ first-in-the-nation free test preparation program will continue through the end of the academic ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

First IndyCar Grand Prix of Arlington delights fans from Mansfield to Austin

Fans were gripping fences all Sunday morning as the sounds of racecars serenaded the tens of thousands who flocked to IndyCar’s inaugural Java House Grand Prix of Arlington. Kyle Kirkwood won the race ...
Black Enterprise

Tuskegee University Launches Alabama’s First HBCU Nursing Apprenticeship Program

The new initiative combines paid clinical training, mentorship, and financial support to strengthen the state’s future healthcare workforce. Tuskegee University has become the first historically Black ...