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Violence Is Traumatizing Haitian Kids. Now The Country's Breaking A Taboo On Mental Health Services

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 6:00am

Jadlenzky Louis holds a drawing made by his mother Guirlaine Reveil that shows a man holding a gun as she approaches a police station, a real-life scenario that occurred a couple of years ago, during a class for adults to learn how to help their children overcome trauma and fear amid violence, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, May 5, 2024.
(Ramon Espinosa / AP Photo)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Students often throw up or wet themselves when gunfire erupts outside their school in northern Port-au-Prince.

When they do, school director Roseline Ceragui Louis finds there's only one way to try to calm the children and keep them safe: getting them to lie on the classroom floor while she sings softly.

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Unsolicited Advice In Breach Between Memory, Modern Problems

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 5:00am

As some college campuses roil with demonstrations, the 2024 version of mortar boards, honorary doctorates and commencement addresses may actually be in jeopardy. What that means at some schools is that the rite of passage known as college graduation has been altered.

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Once-Controversial Summer EBT Food Program For Low-Income NE Kids Set For Rollout

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/15/2024 - 4:00am

LINCOLN — Nebraska’s plan to carry out the once-controversial Summer EBT food program for low-income youths has been given the green light from the federal government.

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Biden Has Rebuilt The Refugee System After Trump-Era Cuts. What Comes Next In An Election Year?

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 6:00am

Leliz Bonilla Castro, left, and her sister Xochina Michelle Castro, refugees from Honduras, participate in an English class, Thursday, April 11, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. The American refugee program, which long served as a haven for people fleeing violence around the world, is rebounding from years of dwindling arrivals under former President Donald Trump.
(Erik Verduzco / AP Photo)

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A church volunteer stood at an apartment door, beckoning inside a Congolese family for their first look at where they would live in America.

“Your new house!” volunteer Dan Davidson exclaimed as the couple and the woman's brother stepped into the two-bedroom apartment in South Carolina's capital, smiling tentatively at what would come next.

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‘Watchfulness’ Among Millions Spent On Persuasion

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 5:00am

The arrival of election season — are we ever out of season? — brings with it a new round of political campaigns ads, those curious, sometimes comedic, 30 seconds to one minute occasional, unintended master classes in pretzel logic.

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A Malawi-To-Nebraska Pipeline Changes Lives. It Also Leaves Students Broke And Stranded, They Say.

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/08/2024 - 4:00am

Front row from left: Norfolk Schools in Malawi founder Joe Mtika, Mayor Wild Ndipo, then-Northeast Community College President Michael Chipps and Norfolk Mayor Josh Moenning pose with other officials at a 2018 ceremony celebrating Norfolk and Blantyre, Malawi, becoming sister cities. Supporters say the school and nonprofit has helped dozens of Malawian teenagers get a U.S. college education and better their lives.
(Courtesy photo)

NORFOLK – The sisters were kicked out of Wayne State College a month into the semester because they had no money to pay tuition, room and board.

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The Mars Sample Return Mission Has A Shaky Future, And NASA Is Calling On Private Companies For Backup

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/01/2024 - 6:00am

This Aug. 26, 2003, image made available by NASA shows Mars as it lines up with the Sun and the Earth. A new study suggests water on Mars may be more widespread and recent than previously thought. Scientists reported the finding from China's Mars rover in Science Advances on Friday, April 28, 2023.
(J. Bell - Cornell U.M. / Wolff / NASA / AP Photo)

A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to 2040.

The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples from Mars to Earth so scientists can analyze them for signs of past life.

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Political Calculus Aside, Listen To Petitioners

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/01/2024 - 5:00am

Even though speech, religion, press and assembly usually claim top billing on the First Amendment marquee, the right to petition, to ask for a “redress of grievances,” must remain undiminished.

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Oklahoma Towns Hard Hit By Tornadoes Begin Long Cleanup After 4 Killed In Weekend Storms

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 05/01/2024 - 4:00am

This image taken from video provided by KOCO shows damage caused by a tornado in Sulphur, Okla., Sunday, April 28, 2024.
(KOCO via AP)

SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — Small towns in Oklahoma began a long cleanup Monday after tornadoes flattened homes and buildings and killed four people, including an infant, widening a destructive outbreak of severe weather across the middle of the U.S.

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Children Of Flint Water Crisis Make Change As Young Environmental And Health Activists

Published by maggie@omahadai... on Wed, 04/24/2024 - 12:06am

Mural in downtown Flint, Michigan.
(Carlos Osorio / AP Photo)

FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Their childhood memories are still vivid: warnings against drinking or cooking with tap water, enduring long lines for cases of water, washing from buckets filled with heated, bottled water. And for some, stomach aches, skin rashes and hair loss.

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Violence Is Traumatizing Haitian Kids. Now The Country's Breaking A Taboo On Mental Health Services

Unsolicited Advice In Breach Between Memory, Modern Problems

Once-Controversial Summer EBT Food Program For Low-Income NE Kids Set For Rollout

Biden Has Rebuilt The Refugee System After Trump-Era Cuts. What Comes Next In An Election Year?

‘Watchfulness’ Among Millions Spent On Persuasion

A Malawi-To-Nebraska Pipeline Changes Lives. It Also Leaves Students Broke And Stranded, They Say.

The Mars Sample Return Mission Has A Shaky Future, And NASA Is Calling On Private Companies For Backup

Political Calculus Aside, Listen To Petitioners

Oklahoma Towns Hard Hit By Tornadoes Begin Long Cleanup After 4 Killed In Weekend Storms

Children Of Flint Water Crisis Make Change As Young Environmental And Health Activists

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