For students and families applying for college financial aid, hang in there. Major problems with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, means that universities and colleges will most likely be delayed in getting offer letters out. With decision day just weeks away for some schools, the pressure is on to get applications processed. On Wednesday, lawmakers held a hearing through the GOP-led House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. “If there was a financial aid director or even a college president that delayed financial aid on their campus for up to six m ..read more

More than 200 chemical plants nationwide will be required to reduce toxic emissions that are likely to cause cancer under a new rule issued Tuesday by the Environmental Protection Agency. The rule advances President Joe Biden’s commitment to environmental justice by delivering critical health protections for communities burdened by industrial pollution from ethylene oxide, chloroprene and other dangerous chemicals, officials said. Areas that will benefit from the new rule include majority-Black neighborhoods outside New Orleans that EPA Administrator Michael Regan visited as part of ..read more

Tesla has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of a Silicon Valley engineer who died in a crash while relying on the company’s semi-autonomous driving software. The amount Tesla paid to settle the case was not disclosed in court documents filed Monday, just a day before the trial stemming from the 2018 crash on a San Francisco Bay Area highway was scheduled to begin. In a court filing requesting to keep the sum private, Tesla said it agreed to settle the case in order to “end years of litigation.” Shares of Tesla Inc., down 30% this year, slipped 1% before the market opened Tuesday. The fam ..read more

AT&T said it has begun notifying millions of customers about the theft of personal data recently discovered online. The telecommunications giant said Saturday that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information such as Social Security numbers for about 7.6 million current AT&T account holders and 65.4 million former account holders. The company said it has already reset the passcodes of current users and will be communicating with account holders whose sensitive personal information was compromised. It is not known if the data “originated from AT&T or one of its vendors,” t ..read more

Americans are buzzing with excitement for the upcoming total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. During these cosmic phenomena, viewers typically watch them in groups or public places such as libraries, parks, festivals, and parks with their eclipse glasses. But not many people know the rest of their wardrobe could improve their entire experience. Experts at Solar Eyeglasses share tips on what colors viewers should wear to enhance their experience of watching the Great American Solar Eclipse and explain the science behind why these particular colors matter. Day to Night Vision: How human eyes se ..read more

Americans are buzzing with excitement for the upcoming total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8. During these cosmic phenomena, viewers typically watch them in groups or public places such as libraries, parks, festivals, and parks with their eclipse glasses. But not many people know the rest of their wardrobe could improve their entire experience. Experts at Solar Eyeglasses share tips on what colors viewers should wear to enhance their experience of watching the Great American Solar Eclipse and explain the science behind why these particular colors matter. Day to Night Vision: How human eyes se ..read more

A woman in Steubenville, Ohio, has made an intriguing claim about her Stanley tumbler. According to her, the iconic insulated cup saved her life when a stray bullet came through her house and ricocheted off the cup, which was sitting right in front of her. The woman shared a video on TikTok in which she explained the incident. She said she and her fiancé were at home when they heard gunfire outside. Moments later, a single bullet came through their house, but luckily, it hit the Stanley cup and ricocheted away from them. The woman’s claim has since gone viral on social media, with many people ..read more

Do you have good DBL? “Digital Boday Language” (DBL) is the non-verbal subtext of digital interactions, such as emojis, punctuation, message length, and response time. In an online world, 77% of Hinge daters say DBL reveals a lot about a match’s intentions. Hinge, the online dating app, released the first Gen Z D.A.T.E. Report in February. The D.A.T.E. (Data, Advice, Trends, and Expertise) report surveyed 15,000 daters to explain top dating trends and tips among Gen Z. Statistics from Hinge’s 2024 Gen Z D.A.T.E. Report So here is how to have good DBL according to Hinge’s experts. Lack of commu ..read more

A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants l ..read more

A giraffe named Benito started a 50-hour road trip Monday to leave behind the cold and loneliness of Mexico’s northern border city of Ciudad Juarez to find warmth — and maybe a mate — in his new home 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) to the south. A campaign by animal rights activists won the four-year-old giraffe a transfer to an animal park in Puebla state in central Mexico, where he will join a group of resident giraffes and enjoy a more suitable climate. It has been a long and lonesome road for Benito. Jealousy forced him to leave his home at a zoo in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa; he wa ..read more