5+ hour, 31+ min ago   (261+ words) Newser State Budget Cuts Imperil Dolly Parton Imagination Library The initiative started by Dolly Parton, who died Tuesday at age 80, to deliver free books to children now faces an uncertain future. The Imagination Library—credited with sending more than 300 million…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (232+ words) An unprecedented number of CIA employees are heading for the exits—and many are finding their pension checks aren't following them out the door. The agency is facing... CIA Seeing 'Historic' Surge in Employee Departures An unprecedented number of CIA…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (268+ words) Parents of incoming kindergartners are opting out of vaccines in record numbers, even as measles surges to levels not seen in decades. New CDC data show 4.2% of US kindergartners—about... Kindergarten Vaccine Exemptions Set Record Parents of incoming kindergartners are…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (663+ words) President Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots... Trump Signs Order on Childhood Vaccines President Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (456+ words) The interim president of Howard University said over 200 of the more than 500 first-year incoming students who were unenrolled for the fall semester have been readmitted to... Howard Defends Unenrolling 500 Students The interim president of Howard University said over 200 of the…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (272+ words) Newser Number of Young Kids in Big Cities Is Plunging On some city blocks, the kids are disappearing. A Wall Street Journal analysis of Census data finds that the number of residents under 18 in large US cities has dropped 6% in…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) Today, 28-year-old Hamza Ali delivers meals across Islamabad, riding a modified motorcycle fitted with hand-operated controls. “After that accident, the first six months of my life were extremely difficult,” he said. “Then I told myself, ‘Ali, you have to do…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago   (288+ words) Newser French Lawmakers Strike Deal on Under-15 Social Media Ban French lawmakers reached a compromise Monday that could allow a bill prohibiting the use of social media for children under 15 to take effect at the start of the new school…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (286+ words) Boys who say they can't put down social media may be more likely to show worsening ADHD symptoms a year later, a large new study suggests. Researchers at UC San Francisco... Boys' Social Media Use Tied to Rising ADHD Symptoms…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (28+ words) A recent cover story in the Atlantic proclaimed that the "end of reading is here." In a New York Times opinion piece, David Wallace-Wells writes that he's......