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Panel of experts chooses reading difficulty screeners that districts can use for kindergarten through second grade.

The Islamic Republic suffered major blows in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, diminishing the power of its so-called Axis of Resistance. Its currency officially became the lowest valued in the world and ...

It took Assad’s regime to fall and Putin to accept it meekly for ... especially those versed in reading between the lines, that a vicious power struggle is already taking place, as hardliners ...

Assad’s fall highlights not only the fragility of ... done too little to support the opposition and ensure a meaningful challenge to Maduro’s rule. The horrors of Venezuela’s humanitarian ...

What was intended to be a dazzling festive spectacle ended in injury to a 7-year-old boy after several drones unexpectedly fell from the sky during a show in Florida on Saturday night, according ...

Outside the Foggy Goggle, a bar at the base of the ski area, the snow continued to fall, roughly an inch an ... “I had a coffee cup in my right hand, I was reading e-mails, and I read the ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the United Nations Convention Against Cybercrime on Tuesday, the first international criminal justice treaty negotiated in over two decades. Adopted without ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. By Tina Jordan This year saw a variety of novels on the New York Times best ...

LaDawn Jefferson, a mother and grandmother from Brooklyn, says she was “getting ready to die” after being diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2021. ABC News’ Will Ganss reports.

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Unless the economy weakens, experts say mortgage rates are unlikely to fall significantly over the course of 2025. Here's why. The post-Fed meeting surge in Treasury yields and home loan rates was ...