Apollo 11 astronaut Michael Collins dead at 90

air-and-space air-and-space Michael Collins died Wednesday at age 90 after a battle with cancer” target=”_blank”>cancer< mission in July 1969.  “We regret to share that our beloved father and grandfather passed away today, after a valiant battle with cancer. He spent his final days peacefully, with his family by his side,” Collins’ family wrote in a…

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Virginia DOE contradicts itself in attempt to walk back equity-focused math framework

The us-regions Department of education” target=”_blank”>Education< Shenk also clarified that under the framework, everyone in eighth grade would take “essential concepts 8.” Hanover Public Schools in Virginia lists him as an “mathematics curriculum specialist.” At the beginning of the webinar, it lists speakers, including “Ian Shenk, Hanover Public Schools.” The Post omitted his comment from its story…

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Oklahoma named new lightning capital of America

us-regions may be giving up its title as America’s disasters capital. While the Sunshine State’s claim has long been undisputed, new weather dataa> suggests that’s no longer the case. < Meteorologists at the world-regions environment” target=”_blank”>environmenta< us-regions had narrowly surpassed Florida for the most lightning flashes per square kilometer from 2016 to 2020.  Lightning events per square…

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Boy dies of coronavirus in Hawaii after traveling with fully vaccinated parents

Hawaii health officials confirmed the state’s first pediatric infectious-disease-related death in a healthy-living who had been visiting the state with his fully vaccinated parents. The child, who officials said was between the ages of 0-10, had “known underlying health conditions” and began experiencing symptoms shortly after arriving in the islands. The child was taken to…

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