Sean Salai

Most students fail basic ‘true or false’ Thanksgiving knowledge quiz

Teenagers may enjoy being out of school to eat turkey on Thursday, but don't expect them to be able to tell you if Thanksgiving is a federal holiday.

November 23, 2022

No baby boom expected for adoption agencies after Roe v. Wade reversal

November is National Adoption Month, but adoption agencies and advocates say they do not expect a baby boom as abortions decline following the end of Roe v. Wade.

November 23, 2022

CDC: Number of documented COVID cases in ERs during 1st year of pandemic lower than expected

Just 6.7% of hospital emergency room visits in 2020 involved any mention of COVID-19, according to federal statistics released Tuesday that raise new questions about the public health response.

November 22, 2022

Gallup poll: 1 in 4 workers still fears catching COVID at work

One in 4 workers still fears catching COVID-19 at work, although the percentage has continued to drop steadily in the latest Gallup poll.

November 22, 2022

Is Black Friday dead?

Americans will spend fewer dollars on Black Friday as rising prices and online shopping further erode the clout of the single-day retail holiday, according to consumer forecasts.

November 21, 2022

Panel votes to make stadardized tests optional for law school applicants

An American Bar Association panel has voted to make standardized testing optional for law school admissions, opening the way for racial preferencing that favors low-scoring applicants.

November 21, 2022

Consumer advocates fight ‘digital discrimination’ against old-school coupon clippers

A coalition of consumer rights groups has petitioned U.S. supermarkets to end digital-only discounts, calling them discriminatory against seniors and low-income shoppers who lack internet access.

November 18, 2022

Study links marijuana legalization to increased alcohol use

State laws legalizing marijuana could have the "unintended consequence" of making more young adults and men abuse alcohol, according to a new health study that finds a link between them.

November 18, 2022

Med schools slow to embrace faculty affirmative action: Report

U.S. medical schools have fully embraced affirmative action in student admissions but not yet for faculty promotions, according to a first-ever diversity report card.

November 18, 2022

Home births hit 31-year record during COVID last year: CDC

The number of U.S. home births reached the highest level since 1990 during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, according to federal data released Thursday.

November 17, 2022

Yale, Harvard law schools pull out of U.S. News rankings in diversity protest

Yale and Harvard's law schools have announced they will no longer participate in the U.S. News and World Report ranking, calling its emphasis on test scores incompatible with socioeconomic diversity.

November 17, 2022

Thanksgiving dinner costs up a record high 20%, farm industry reports

The cost of a turkey dinner has soared by a record high 20% as inflation eats into Thanksgiving budgets, the American Farm Bureau Federation says.

November 17, 2022

CDC reports unprecedented spike in Black, Hispanic suicides; decline among Whites

Long-term U.S. suicide trends changed heading into the pandemic, as rates fell steadily among Whites for the first time and rose among Blacks and Hispanics, according to federal data released Wednesday.

November 16, 2022

Study finds Texas births up, abortions down after fetal heartbeat law

A new study finds that more babies have been born in Texas since it restricted abortions last year, challenging the claim that women there are simply terminating pregnancies out of state.

November 15, 2022

AAA predicts the third-busiest Thanksgiving travel weekend

This year will mark the third-busiest Thanksgiving travel weekend as the number of Americans driving and flying hits 98% of pre-pandemic levels, AAA announced Tuesday.

November 15, 2022

Federal judge rejects Biden administration’s transgender health protections

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the Biden administration cannot redefine sex-based discrimination in statutes to force doctors to perform gender-transition procedures against their will.

November 14, 2022

International enrollment rebounds 80% at U.S. colleges

The number of foreign students enrolling for the first time in U.S. colleges and universities last year rebounded to 80% of pre-pandemic levels, according to a State Department-sponsored report.

November 14, 2022

Gallup: Death penalty support holds steady for 6 straight years

Most Americans (55%) say they support the death penalty, statistically unchanged for six straight years, according to a Gallup poll on Monday.

November 14, 2022

Liberal college students increasingly use ‘heckler veto’ to drown out conservative speakers

College students recently shouted down conservative speakers at Cornell, Penn State and the University of New Mexico, which free-speech advocates warn is a harbinger of a growing "heckler veto" that will further cancel conservative voices at America's institutions of higher learning.

November 11, 2022

Poll: More Americans trust veterans than federal government to ‘do the right thing’

A new survey finds that Americans have "significantly higher confidence" in military veterans than in Congress or the Supreme Court to do the right thing for the nation.

November 10, 2022