As schools across the country respond to a youth mental health crisis accelerated by the pandemic, many are confronting the thorny legal, ethical, and practical challenges of getting parents on board with treatment.
Amber Carter
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Republican lawmakers are backing dozens of bills targeting diversity efforts on public institutions
Already this year, Republican lawmakers have proposed about 50 bills in 20 states that would restrict initiatives on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Nikki Haley challenges Trump on her home turf in South Carolina
Haley skipped the Nevada caucuses, condemning the contest as rigged for Trump, and has instead focused on South Carolina, kicking off a two-week bus tour across the state.
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CEO of major Nigerian bank killed in California helicopter crash, director-general of WTO says
The helicopter went down Friday evening near Baker, a town of 700 people about 95 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
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Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city, kills 7
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said more than 50 people had been evacuated and that emergency workers had contained the blaze by Saturday morning.
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The Senate is pushing past far-right objections to aiding Ukraine. But next steps are uncertain
Even if the foreign aid package gets off the ground in the Senate after this weekend’s session of Sunday voting, the package still faces a deeply uncertain future in the House.
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Uproar over Biden classified documents report carries echoes of 2016 Clinton email case
In this year’s already heated election season, the Justice Department cleared Democrat Biden, too, of criminal wrongdoing but painted a politically damaging picture of his handling of classified information.
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Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says
For thousands of years, Earth’s oceans have relied on a circulation system that runs like a conveyor belt. It’s still going but slowing.
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Biden administration announces $5 billion commitment for research and development of computer chips
COVID-19 exposed the risk to the economy and national security of an over-dependence on Taiwan for advanced chips.
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Pentagon finishes review of Austin’s failure to tell Biden and other leaders about his cancer
Austin has been scrutinized for keeping secret his prostate cancer diagnosis in early December, his surgery, and his hospitalization on Jan. 1.