A high school math teacher at St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans, Michelle Blouin Williams, was looking for ingenuity when she and her colleagues set a school-wide math contest with a challenging bonus question. That bonus question asked students to create a new proof for the Pythagorean Theorem, a fundamental principle of geometry, using trigonometry. The teachers weren’t necessarily expecting …
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After private equity firm KKR bought Potter Global Technologies, a manufacturer of fire protection equipment in St. Louis, employees learned they were being given an ownership stake in the company. The goal is for KKR to sell Potter Global Technologies five or so years later, for a profit. If that happens, workers will get payouts tied to their tenure, on …
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James Butler, a Black, 42-year-old Atlanta-based Democrat, is planning on casting his ballot for President BIden in November — but he isn’t so enthusiastic this time around. “I guess it’s the best we got,” he said about the 2024 election. Butler’s not alone among Black voters in Georgia in his lack of enthusiasm in voting for Mr. Biden for a …
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A car crashed into the security gate that surrounds the White House on Saturday night, killing the driver, officials said The incident was only under investigation as a traffic collision, according to the D.C. Police Department. The man was identified Monday afternoon as 57-year-old James Chester Lewis of Matthews, North Carolina. Anthony Gugliemi, spokesperson for the Secret Service said there …
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Though they disagree on most issues, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has opposed efforts to oust embattled Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson. After Johnson worked with Democrats to pass a foreign aid bill that included $61 billion for Ukraine, Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who opposed the bill, said she’d follow through with a threat to remove Johnson …
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Debi Brumit has never gotten ahead. An hourly employee renting a house in Ferguson, Missouri, Brumit is a poster child for the American workforce. A missed paycheck means coming up short on rent. An unexpected medical bill, borrowing from friends or the bank. Household finances are no more than a lifelong shuffle between bills, debt, and due payments; an infinite …
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The United States Congress is not particularly popular these days, and look no further than the current session to understand why. It will likely be the least productive Congress since the Civil War. One lawmaker who’s figured out a way to get a few things done is Congressman Hakeem Jeffries. He replaced Nancy Pelosi as the leader of the Democrats …
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Australian police shot and killed a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife after he stabbed a man in an attack that had the “hallmarks” of terror, officials said Sunday. The incident occurred in the parking lot of a hardware store in Willetton, a suburb in the west coast city of Perth, on Saturday night. Police said they received an emergency …
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Hamas militants attacked Israel’s main crossing point for delivering humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, dealing a blow to the ongoing crease-fire efforts that appear at an impasse with both sides blaming each other. The attack on Israel’s Kerem Shalom crossing killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded several others, three of whom were critically wounded, a spokesperson for …
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House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said the United States must continue supporting Ukraine to prevent a broader war, and he blamed the delay in aiding the fight against Russia on a “pro-Putin faction” within the Republican Party. “We can’t let Ukraine fall because if it does, then there’s a significant likelihood that America will have to get into the conflict …
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