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Top Treasury official retires over DOGE request for access to payment systems

David Lebryk, a top Treasury Department nonpolitical career official, retired Friday after clashing with Elon Musk allies over government payment systems, a source familiar with the matter told The ...

The Hill - 9h

The Twitch Streamer Using Face Recognition to Make Video Games More Accessible

For years, the Twitch streamer Valentin Squirelo has been seeking new ways players with disabilities can enjoy games without expensive hardware. Now he and his community of fans have invented a ...

Wired - 1d

Trump to attend school choice roundtable

President Trump will attend a school choice roundtable at the White House on Friday, just two days after signing an executive order to give more support to the programs. “The White House is ...

The Hill - 17h

School holiday fines at a record high

The number of fines issued for unauthorised school holidays has tripled since 2016-17.

BBC News - 1d

Oklahoma education chief: 'Our schools will not be sanctuary schools'

The Oklahoma schools chief says he will support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

The Hill - 1d

Lucid's Gravity SUV gets native Tesla Supercharger access on January 31

Yahoo News - 3d

UK to give businesses greater access to pension scheme surpluses

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan is intended to drive investment by companies and boost economic growth

Financial Times - 4d

Analysis: Fixing African schools in the kitchen

Yahoo News - 4d

Chicago school district says it was wrong about ICE agents going to a school

Chicago Public Schools said its officials made a mistake when they said ICE had gone to a school, mistaken information that caused alarm. It was Secret Service.

NBC News - Jan. 25

Federal judge, prosecutors battle over Oath Keepers' access to Capitol

D.C. Judge Amit Mehta ordered Oath Keeper members who were convicted of Jan. 6 crimes but whose sentences were commuted by President Trump.

CBS News - Jan. 24

Assassin's Creed Shadows Accessibility Options Are The Series' Most Robust Yet

Not every player can experience video games in the same way, especially if they have impairments. That's why Ubisoft is laying out the accessibility options that are included in Assassin's Creed ...

GameSpot - Jan. 24

Unpaid internship access 'unfair' to working class, students say

New research says internship opportunities increasingly favour those from a middle class background.

BBC News - Jan. 23

Nashville school shooting investigation underway

At least one student was killed on Wednesday in a shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Senior coordinating producer for CBS News' crime and public safety unit Anna Schecter ...

CBS News - Jan. 22

Brussels proposes extending EU banks’ access to UK clearing houses

European Commission wants to prolong existing arrangements that benefit City of London

Financial Times - Jan. 22

Thomas to golfers: Grant more access to media

Justin Thomas is asking his fellow golfers to make themselves more accessible to the PGA Tour's media partners during telecasts, citing the sport's need to "better connect with fans."

ESPN - Jan. 21

Catalight's Journey Cuts a Clear Path to Sustainable Access to Healthcare

Impacting the lives of 20,000 people daily, Catalight seeks to eliminate the long wait times for care by challenging the status quo through research, innovation and advocacy with the goal to ...

CBS News - Jan. 20

TikTok no longer accessible in US

TikTok blocked access to American users late Saturday night, just hours before a law banning the popular video-sharing platform was set to go into effect. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in ...

The Hill - Jan. 19

How scientists with disabilities are making research labs and fieldwork more accessible

Disabled scientists are trying to make research labs and fieldwork more accessible

ABC News - Jan. 18

"Curious" sailor tried to access Biden's medical records, investigation shows

According to the investigation, obtained by CBS News, "curiosity" drove a Navy corpsman to see if he could access President Biden's medical records on a government computer.

CBS News - Jan. 17

Houston school closures for Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Yahoo News - Jan. 17

Judge allows 3 states to advance efforts to restrict access to abortion pill

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.

CBS News - Jan. 16

Russian diplomats accessed private area of UK parliament in security breach

Exclusive: MPs warned not to invite Russian diplomats to parliament after incident said to have alarmed ministers. Russian diplomats accessed a private area of parliament in a major security breach ...

The Guardian - Jan. 16

Capital One acknowledges 'outage' as users report issues accessing deposits

Capital One said an unspecified technical issue was hampering customer account access, as some users reported issues with direct deposits.

NBC News - Jan. 16

Japan YouTuber novelist woos global audience with visual, accessible horror

He wears a black bodysuit and a white mask, speaks in an electronically altered squeaky voice and makes creepiness his signature mode of art

ABC News - Jan. 16

Access Is Tight Around Kamala Harris’s Los Angeles Home

The Brentwood house she shares with Doug Emhoff is in an evacuation zone, but the vice president has been in Washington.

The New York Times - Jan. 15

Texas Rangers will stream broadcasts after seasons of difficult access to games

The Texas Rangers are making their regional game broadcasts available directly to consumers in a streaming package

ABC News - Jan. 15

EU threatens to curb access for makers of Chinese medical devices

Report finds Beijing is discriminating against bloc’s manufacturers in same field

Financial Times - Jan. 14

Democratic states train non-doctors on providing abortions to expand US access

From Washington to Connecticut, pharmacists and healthcare workers pioneer efforts to limit abortion barriers. Democratic states across the country are embarking on a pioneering effort to ...

The Guardian - Jan. 13

Several schools destroyed in Los Angeles-area wildfires

The fires burning across Los Angeles County have thrown the school year into turmoil. At least a dozen schools have burned, impacting more than 5,000 students. Lilia Luciano reports.

CBS News - Jan. 10

The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down.

Wired - Jan. 9

How To Get Into Path Of Exile 2 Early Access

Path of Exile 2 is out now in early access ahead of its 1.0 launch in the future. Naturally, that means the game will change a lot over the months ahead. While the ARPG will feature three acts of ...

GameSpot - Jan. 8

UnitedHealth shareholders demand review of policies that 'delayed or denied' health care access

Shareholders of UnitedHealth Group (UHG) are calling on the company's board of directors to release a report on how its policy of limiting or delaying access to health care may be impacting the ...

The Hill - Jan. 8

'Unfair' to call parents into school to change nappies

A council says parents will have to come in to change children who soil themselves in school.

BBC News - Jan. 8

Schools bill risks harming decades of progress in England

Changes to system that has driven up teaching standards need to be made with great care

Financial Times - Jan. 8

Indonesia places a $28bn bet on free school meals

President Prabowo Subianto wants to cater for 82mn students and pregnant mothers to boost growth and attainment

Financial Times - Jan. 8

Nvidia announces early access for Omniverse Sensor RTX for smarter autonomous machines

Nvidia announced early access for Omniverse Cloud Sensor RTX software to enable smarter autonomous machines with generative AI. Generative AI and foundation models let autonomous machines ...

VentureBeat - Jan. 7