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National and world news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inNation & World, Schools and Education
ACT test scores for U.S. students drop to new 30-year low
The average scores in reading, science and math all were below benchmarks the ACT says students must reach to have a high probability of success in first-year college courses.
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Posted inNation & World, New England
Police search for killer of retired Vermont college dean who was shot near campus
Authorities tell people in the small town of Castleton to remain vigilant and not go out alone.
Posted inNation & World, News
Citing Trump’s online attacks, U.S. prosecutors seek protections for potential jurors in election case
Prosecutors’ motion is the latest flashpoint in the case over Trump’s repeated social media attacks on prosecutors, the judge and others.
Posted inNation & World
Biden’s second try at student loan cancellation moves forward with debate over the plan’s details
The latest attempt will rest on a sweeping law known as the Higher Education Act, which gives the education secretary authority to waive student loans.
Posted inNation & World
More presumed remains recovered from submersible that imploded on way to Titanic
Five people were aboard the 22-foot vessel when it went deep below the Atlantic Ocean’s surface in June.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Wall Street rises as pressure from the bond market eases
Increasing Treasury yields have been the main reason for the stock market’s stumbles since the summer, as worries rise that the Fed will keep its federal funds rate at a high level for longer than Wall Street hopes.
Posted inNation & World, Politics
Rep. George Santos faces new charges he stole donor IDs, used their credit cards
Prosecutors accuse U.S. Rep. George Santos of charging more than $44,000 to his campaign over a period of months using credit cards belonging to contributors without their knowledge.
Posted inNation & World
Deadly bird flu reappears in U.S. commercial poultry flocks in Utah and South Dakota
Bird flu last year cost U.S. poultry producers nearly 59 million birds across 47 states, including egg-laying chickens and turkeys and chickens raised for meat, making it the country’s deadliest outbreak ever.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Fraud trial: Trump earlier listed penthouse size at 11,000 square feet, not the 30,000 he later claimed
Evidence shown at Donald Trump’s New York civil business fraud trial shows that he signed a 1994 document that gave the true size of the New York penthouse that was listed later as far larger on his financial statements.