Washington moves to cut China out of the machines powering US Bitcoin mining

The new Mined in America Act tries to reshore Bitcoin mining hardware, reduce China-linked supply risk, and fold the industry into America’s broader digital-asset strategy.
Gino Matos is a law school graduate and a seasoned journalist with six years of experience in the crypto industry. His expertise primarily focuses on the Brazilian blockchain ecosystem and developments in decentralized finance (DeFi).
America holds roughly 38% of global Bitcoin mining capacity, and the specialized hardware powering that positi

New Jersey middle school teacher charged with child ****** ual ****** ault after alleged relationship with student

A former middle school teacher in New Jersey was arrested on Thursday following allegations she had had a ****** ual relationship with a student.
Ashley Fisler, 36, of Washington Township in Gloucester County, was charged with six counts of first-degree ****** ual ****** ault of a minor, one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and one count of second-degree official misconduct, according to Fox 29.
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Late defensive stand helps Neillsville earn D4 girls basketball ****** le

ASHWAUBENON − Two critical defensive plays by Neillsville helped preserve the school's second state ****** le in the WIAA Division 4 girls basketball championship game March 14.
Madi Davel's steal with a few seconds left thwarted a potential winning shot from Albany/Monticello. Her two bonus free throws with 0.8 seconds remaining left the ****** e Stallions with one final attempt. Another steal by Laylah Walk on the inbound pass secured the 43-40 win for the Warriors as time expired at the Resch Center.
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From rockets to cancer research, here's how the number pi is embedded in our lives

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the date that represents the first three digits of the mathematical constant pi.
Representing the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, pi is approximately equal to 3.14159 — but its digits go on forever. In school, you might have used it to calculate the area of a circle or the volume of a cylinder. But the applications of pi are endless and part of every corner of our world.
The holiday was created

2028 Georgia offensive tackle schedules Tennessee football visit

Tennessee is recruiting toward its 2028 football signing class.
Four-star offensive tackle Kweli Fielder will visit Tennessee on March 21, according to Tom Loy of 247Sports. He will also visit Florida, Auburn, Virginia Tech, Ohio State, Georgia and South Carolina.
The 6-foot-4, 310-pound prospect is from Carrollton High School in Carrollton, Georgia. 247Sports ranks him as the No. 3 offensive tackle in the class and the No. 2 player in Georgia.
Tennessee offered Fielder a scholarship on Jan. 23, 2025. The 2028 prospect's vi

NFL Combine 2026: Full list of prospects invited to Indianapolis

The NFL has released the full list of players invited to the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine. A total of 319 draft prospects were invited to participate in the league's annual scouting showcase in Indianapolis, which takes place from Feb. 23 through March 2.
The list of NFL Combine invitees includes representatives from 77 college football programs, including seven schools with at least 10 players on the list.
Texas A&M leads the way with 13 invitees, followed by Alabama with 12, LSU and Ohio State with 11 each, and Georgia, Miami

Photos of Shiite Muslims displaced from Syria living at a newly opened camp in Lebanon

HERMEL, Lebanon (AP) — Thousands of Shiite Muslims who fled Syria after former President Bashar ****** ad's government was toppled in an offensive by Sunni rebels in December 2024 have found a new home in Lebanon.
Many of them stayed in mosques, schools or with relatives in Lebanon until the Imam Ali Housing Compound — funded by Lebanon's Shiite militant Hezbollah group and Shiite religious institutions in Iraq and Iran — was opened in late 2025. The camp, in the northeastern Lebanese town of Hermel, has

Death toll from winter storm rises to 29, with another arctic blast looming

Many in the U.S. faced another night of below-freezing temperatures and no electricity after a colossal winter storm heaped more snow Monday on the Northeast and kept parts of the South coated in ice. At least 30 deaths were reported in states afflicted with severe cold.
Deep snow — over a foot (30 centimeters) extending in a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) swath from Arkansas to New England — halted traffic, canceled flights and triggered wide school closures Monday. The National Weather Service said areas north of P

He started untangling cords. Now he's running a $175,000 1-man shop at age 23.

Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good student,” he said in an interview with Fortune. “In high school, I participated in all types of extracurriculars, student leadership, I did a lot of public speaking. I had all sorts of friends.” But he said something changed during the pandemic. “School looked drastically different doing online classes and Zoom calls. It felt very intangible.” He said he figured out pretty quickly that online

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief.
Forty years ago ***** e Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida.
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“We definitely didn’t know what happened at the time, but you could feel the energy of the teachers,” said Elizabeth Wisner Stroz, now 51, then an 11-year-old

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief.
Forty years ago **** e Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over Cape Canaveral. The nation’s youth watched on TVs across the nation and from school playgrounds across Central Florida.
Christa McAuliffe was to be the first teacher in **** e.
But the streak of the rocket’s plume did not look right.
“We definitely didn’t know what happened at the time, but you could feel the energy of the teachers,” said Elizabeth Wisner Stroz, now 51, then an 11-year-old in

Minnesota holds economic strike to protest ICE presence

Hundreds of businesses in Minnesota closed on Friday and thousands of protesters turned out in severely cold weather to demonstrate against the ongoing immigration crackdown in the state.
The widespread rallies come after organisers encouraged residents to skip work or school and refrain from shopping in a show of opposition to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The ICE operation ordered by the Trump administration in Minnesota has been going on for more than six weeks.
The administration has characterised it as a public

Billionaire who sold two companies to Coca-Cola says he tries to convince people not to become entrepreneurs: ‘Every single day, you can go bankrupt’

Mike Repole, the billionaire entrepreneur who co-founded and sold beverage giants Glaceau and BodyArmor to Coca-Cola for a combined $9.7 billion, has an unexpected message for aspiring business owners: Don’t do it.
In an interview with The School of Hard Knocks, a popular social-media channel known for interviewing wealthy entrepreneurs, Repole shared his contrarian view on entrepreneurship, emphasizing the brutal realities that most success

Chestnut farmers are struggling to produce robust crop yields due to the effects of Earth's warming.
According to Ekathimerini, summer droughts across villages near Mount Pelion in Greece have disrupted chestnut production.
Giorgos Nanos, a professor at the Arboriculture Laboratory of the University of Thessaly's School of Agricultural Sciences, said, "This year is one of the worst for chestnut producers in Pelion," per the publication.
In 2024, Reuters reported that chestnut production in Greece dropped by 90%. It seems the situation has not improved since then. Many people in the area dep

Professor Andrew Urquhart is Professor of Finance and Financial Technology and Head of the Department of Finance at Birmingham Business School (BBS).
This is the tenth installment of the Professor Coin column, in which I bring important insights from published academic literature on cryptocurrencies to the Decrypt readership. In this article, I discuss how crypto’s relationship with equities has evolved.
Not so long ago, Bitcoin was marketed as the ultimate diversifier—an ***** et supposedly immune to whatever was happening in equity markets. Early academic work backed that up: Liu and Tsyvi

'It's worse than Covid,' says principal as 170 pupils off sick in one day

The principal of a County Londonderry school has said it is like "being back in Covid times" after 170 pupils were off sick on one day alone.
Brian Guthrie of Ebrington Primary School said some children had to attend hospital and a small number were admitted for treatment last week.
Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks, rising from 273 to 954, official figures show.
Numbers are expected to rise, according to the Director of Public Health

Boy, 5, sneaks out alone for Chick-fil-A. His 1st question had police laughing.

Before the sun was fully up and long before the rest of his family stirred, William, a 5-year-old boy in Jacksonville, Florida, quietly climbed out of bed and decided his parents deserved a little more sleep. He felt hungry, and rather than wake anyone, the preschooler settled on a plan that made perfect sense to him: he would take himself out for breakfast.
Moments later he slipped out of the house, through a gate, and padded barefoot down the block to the nearby Chick-fil-A he knew from weekend outings.
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US appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to halt grants for school mental health workers

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.
The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, included grants meant to help schools hire more counselors, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on rural and underserved areas of the country. But

New details emerge in manhunt for fugitive Virginia football coach

Federal authorities joined the search for a fugitive high school football coach being sought in connection with a child ******* abuse image and solicitation probe in Virginia — and warn he may be armed.
The U.S. Marshals Service on Monday asked anyone with information about Travis Turner, 46, to call it or Virginia State Police.
"VSP is still searching for Turner with the ******* istance of the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service," state police spokesperson Robin Lawson said in statement Monday.
Turner, coach of the undefeated

Getting middle school students excited about science can be a challenge.
However, it’s needed more than ever.
In the most recent MCAS results, only a third of the state’s 8th graders met or surpassed expectations in science.
The Engineering Ambassadors program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute is one way to engage younger students with STEM-related fields.
“We want our middle school students to understand what STEM is and understand that what they might want to do is STEM. Oftentimes, we hear from our students, I want to be a video game designer, but I didn’t know that was STEM. We really

Specific immune cells in the brain may play a crucial role in preventing the onset of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study – a discovery that could lead to new therapies that try to coax cells into this protective state.
Earlier studies have shown that immune cells in the brain called microglia can effectively tackle the symptoms of Alzheimer's, but also make them worse through inflammation.
Here, an international team of scientists took a detailed look at how microglia switch between those two helpful and harmful modes.
Using mouse models of Alzheimer's, Icahn School of Medicine n

A University of Texas professor says AI didn't break college — it revealed how broken teaching was.
Steven Mintz said that mass lectures and formulaic essays dehumanized education long before AI.
He said that schools must automate rote learning so humans can focus on thinking and mentorship.
When Steven Mintz, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin, opened 400 essays from his students, he noticed something uncanny. The sentences were the same. The structure was the same. Even the conclusions matched.
In a LinkedIn post, Mintz said this wasn't a cheating crisis but a pedag

Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy edits video initially proposing year-round school

(The Center Square) – Ohio Republican governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is quickly backing away from an idea to send children to school year-round and extend the school day.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton posted a clip of Ramaswamy’s social media video, which outlined ideas to reduce the cost of child care, including sending students to school until 4 p.m. and keeping schools in session throughout the year.
Ramaswamy later deleted the video, and a new version without the school plan was upload

College basketball player dies after being injured during game
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A basketball player at a junior college in Oklahoma who was injured during a game has died, school officials said.
Connors State College sophomore Ethan Dietz died Tuesday after he was injured during the second half of a game Saturday in Texas, the school said in a statement posted to its Facebook page. A spokesperson for the college, Shannon Rigsby, said initial reports indicate Dietz suffered some kind of head injury, but that she didn't have any more information.
"Ethan exemplified what it means to be a Cowboy, to

Gainesville High School could take legal action to reverse football players’ suspensions

The fight to reverse the decision to suspend dozens of Gainesville High School football players from this Friday’s game is not over.
“We’re in the process of dealing with our school system’s attorneys and seeing what our options are,” said Adam Lindsey, Athletic Director for Gainesville City Schools.
Lindsey was part of a virtual hearing Tuesday in which the Georgia High School ***** ociation upheld a decision to suspend 35 of 39 Gainesville players after a fight broke out on the field during a game a

Purdue transfer, Indy native hits game-winning 3-pointer for new school
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Myles Colvin left Purdue basketball looking for a greater role, and boy did he deliver for his new school Friday night.
Colvin, an Indianapolis native who played at Heritage Christian, hit a game-winning corner 3-pointer after a long heave into the frontcourt as his Wake Forest team beat Memphis 69-68. The Demon Deacons (4-2) had 1.5 seconds for a desperation play, and Colvin delivered the final blow.
It was a big win in the Baha Mar Championships consolation game. The Demon Deacons h

De Zavala Elementary in Midland has implemented the School Action Fund STEM model to provide students with high-quality learning experiences in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (Courtesy Photo)
MIDLAND In Midland ISD, De Zavala Elementary School is embarking on an exciting new chapter as it launches a comprehensive STEM model designed to inspire curiosity, creativity, and innovation in every student. The initiative, made possible through the generous support of Chevron, the ExxonMobil Foundation, and ConocoPhillips, will transform the campus into a hub of hands-on exploratio

You can call it spit, snot or respiratory drops, but a research team has found the moisture that emerges in the unique v-shaped "blow" of endangered North Atlantic right whales holds important clues about their health.
Researchers have collaborated for decades on ways to improve the care, treatment and management of the critically endangered species. But treating the animals when they are ill is a difficult proposition.
The whales weigh in at 70 tons and are longer than a school bus, so taking them to the local vet is out of the question. And when a vet goes to the whale, either to try to re

A heated school board meeting led authorities to reveal that a Louisiana middle schooler was charged with sharing AI-created nude images of a 13-year-old classmate.

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