Education

Good morning. It’s Tuesday. Today we’ll see what a foundation in Brooklyn is doing to help nonprofits in a borough that it says is too often overlooked. We’ll also get details on some city investigators responsible for cracking down on jail officers suspected of lying about being sick.

As food prices in Canada continue to soar, putting pressure on families as they buy groceries, pay the rent and try to make ends meet, school nutrition programs across the country say they're struggling to provide meals to a growing number of students in need.

On January 6, Birmingham, Alabama became the latest city to propose so-called “tiny homes” as a short-term way to address unsheltered homelessness.

As California emerges from a two-week bout of deadly atmospheric rivers, a number of climate researchers say the recent storms appear to be typical of the intense, periodic rains the state has experienced throughout its history and not the result of global warming.

The shooting of a Virginia teacher by her six-year-old student last week left the town of Newport News and the rest of the US shaken and shocked.

Outside the People’s Hospital of Dezhou, a small city in the coastal province of Shandong, an old woman on a stretcher, breathing quickly with her eyes closed, is unloaded from an ambulance. A few minutes later she is put back into it. Her family members start calling other hospitals.

To describe what it can be like to write a novel, I’ll offer a bit of my own experience: My first published novel, which began almost thirty years ago with a grudge. You would be amazed by how many novels are inspired by complaint; the advice “start small” has many applications.

Even if videos like Brandolini's are intended to be educational templates that we use to better understand ourselves and our relationships, a strange phenomenon occurs when we take them at face value and use them in place of real therapy.

Shrimp sambal, reconstituted milk, and fried noodles bubble away in a pot, filling the air with the aroma of laksa, Singapore’s beloved noodle soup.

California is taking a beating from what the National Weather Service has called a “seemingly never ending parade” of strong storm systems, which started late last December and are still coming.

Mexico’s government is building a new train project that could have big economic benefits, but the tracks are going to be laid at the expense of fragile ecosystems and indigenous artifacts, alarming the country’s environmentalists.

These writers go beyond the realm of standard guidebooks to offer generous insight and reassurance. The moment I learned I was pregnant, advice began pouring in from all directions.

One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.

Brain researchers have relied on devices called microelectrode arrays for decades, but the technology behind these tools is increasingly outdated. Precision Neuroscience is building a modern alternative that’s not only an order of magnitude better, but far less invasive to put in.

Hundreds of Afghan refugees who settled in London after fleeing the Taliban 18 months ago have been told they have a week to uproot and move 200 miles away, the Guardian can reveal.