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ATLANTA (AP) — Last year, Sechita McNair and her three kids were evicted from their apartment in a rapidly gentrifying Atlanta neighborhood.For many families, losing their home means changing schools, too.Federal law protects evicted families, letting them stay in their schools even if they move out of the residency zone. But once McNair and her sons found housing in the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, those protections would last only until the end of the school year. She was determined to find housing in her old neighborhood before school restarted, so her sons could have the stability and resources of staying…
ATLANTA (AP) — As an education reporter, I’ve heard teachers worry that the most pernicious challenges their students face, like poverty or housing insecurity, are beyond the realm of what schools can fix.I wanted to understand better how the rising cost of housing and the prevalence of eviction could undermine a young person’s ability to thrive in school and in life. Research shows schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to transfer to another school, often one with less funding, more poverty and lower test scores. They’re more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are suspended…
ATLANTA (AP) — It was the worst summer in years. Sechita McNair’s family took no vacations. Her younger boys didn’t go to camp. Her van was repossessed, and her family nearly got evicted — again.But she accomplished the one thing she wanted most. A few weeks before school started, McNair, an out-of-work film industry veteran barely getting by driving for Uber, signed a lease in the right Atlanta neighborhood so her eldest son could stay at his high school.As she pulled up outside the school on the first day, Elias, 15, stepped onto the curb in his new basketball shoes…
(Reuters) -Pfizer Inc said on Thursday it sold a part of its stake in German drugmaker BioNTech SE, more than five years after both firms formed an alliance that yielded a vaccine to combat the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.The U.S. drugmaker cut its stake by 54.7%, leaving the company with roughly 1.66 million sponsored American Depositary Shares of BioNTech, valued at about $163.5 million as of September 30, a regulatory filing showed.This marks a strategic shift after Pfizer and BioNTech began their partnership in 2018, collaborating on the development of mRNA-based influenza vaccines.A spokesperson for BioNTech confirmed earlier on Thursday, when…
One nonprofit is changing lives worldwide — one wheelchair at a time.On World Kindness Day Thursday, Free Wheelchair Mission is one philanthropic organization building and delivering wheelchairs to people with disabilities around the world.The nonprofit has given 1.5 million wheelchairs to people in need in 95 countries since 2001, according to their website, describing their company as “a humanitarian organization that designs and manufactures cost-efficient, durable wheelchairs for individuals living with disabilities in developing countries.”Courtesy Free Wheelchair Mission – PHOTO: Anna is shown with her wheelchair in Kenya.Nuka Hart, the CEO of Free Wheelchair Mission, told ABC that their goal…
Steve Nesius/Reuters 2025-11-13T23:26:11.875Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket launched NASA’s Escapade Mars orbiters from Florida. The mission marks Blue Origin’s first successful booster recovery. Escapade will study Mars’ atmosphere and aid NASA’s future astronaut mission planning. Jeff Bezos’ space company just hit a major milestone.On Thursday afternoon, just before 4…
If there’s one thing that VCs agree on when backing AI startups, it’s that AI requires a different investment approach than prior technological shifts. “It’s a funky time,” said Aileen Lee, founder and managing partner of Cowboy Ventures, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. The longtime VC noted that the rules of investing have significantly shifted now that some AI companies are leaping from “zero to $100 million in revenue in a single year.” However, Lee also noted that, based on her firm’s research, Series A investors aren’t just seeking rapid revenue growth. “It’s an algorithm with different variables and different…
Storage has always been the “underappreciated child” in computing architectures, said Scott Shadley, Director of Leadership Narrative and Technology Evangelist at Solidigm, which develops Solid-State Drives (SSDs) for enterprise.But AI has caused a step change in the volume and velocity of data being gathered and processed every day. “Even just five years ago, you’d capture a petabyte of data and only keep 100 terabytes of it. Now we want to hold on to everything,” said Shadley.Until now, decisions about storage have been largely made on a cost per gigabyte basis. Nearly 90% of data center storage still relies on old-fashioned…
By Simon Jessop and Anna PortellaBELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -With more than a half-million people worldwide dying from heat-related causes every year, a group of philanthropies is putting $300 million into developing life-saving solutions as global temperatures continue to rise.The money, announced this week at the COP30 climate negotiations in Brazil, is aimed at developing data and figuring out the best investments for tackling rising risks from extreme heat, air pollution and infectious disease.“We are a philanthropy. We can’t just keep plugging holes and resuscitating a dying model of development,” said Estelle Willie, the director of health policy and communications at…
HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba is fighting a wave of mosquito-borne illnesses including dengue and chikungunya virus that have swept the island in recent weeks, affecting nearly one-third of the population and sickening swaths of workers, the country’s top epidimiologist said late on Wednesday.Dengue fever has long plagued Cuba but has grown worse as an economic crisis hampers the government’s ability to fumigate, clean roadside trash and patch leaky pipes. Chikungunya, once rare on the island, has also spread quickly in recent months.”The situation is acute,” said Francisco Duran, the country’s chief epidimiologist. He said the government was working “intensely” as during…