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Can school vouchers give kids a shot at a better education? Education nominee Betsy DeVos faces her first Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2jO8Zme President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos.
This story is part of Kitchen Table Conversations, a series from NPR's National Desk that examines how Americans from all walks of life are moving forward from the presidential election. Pennsylvania surprised a lot of people in November when voters abandoned a long history of electing Democrats for president and chose Republican Donald Trump.
Michelle Obama has said packing up to leave the White House has been "surprisingly emotional" as she reflected on her eight years in the spotlight. When asked by host Jimmy Fallon if preparing to leave the White House for good had been emotional, she said: "It is.
Many Democrats applauded, while Republicans offered a degree of support for the project. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, who had pushed for free tuition at all state colleges during his presidential campaign, endorsed the project by appearing next to the governor when he announced the plan at LaGuardia Community College on Jan. 3. A spokesman for the Republican majority on New York's state Senate said Republicans have long supported lowering the costs of college education for middle-class families.
In 1993, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a famous article titled " Defining Deviancy Down ," where he argued that behavior once considered indefensible is now mainstream. His subtitle was "How We've Become Accustomed To Alarming Levels Of Crime And Destructive Behavior."
In a farewell address to a hall filled with the activists who helped him become the first black American president, Barack Obama on Tuesday urged all Americans to unite to protect the nation's democracy, which he said is being threatened by outside forces as well as tensions within. "There have been moments throughout our history that threatened to rupture that solidarity," the president said.
Schoolchildren watch as the California sea lions are fed fish at the Central Park Zoo in New York on January 10, 2007. Children keep getting more expensive to raise -- fashion is pricier and so are doctor visits and day care, according to the U.S. government.
President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday, calling Meryl Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood" following her speech Sunday night at the Golden Globe awards. While "overrated" is an opinion, Streep, who took aim at Trump in her speech while accepting the Globes lifetime achievement award, holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations of any actor.
Children keep getting more expensive to raise - fashion is pricier and so are doctor visits and day care, according to the U.S. government. At least food's still relatively cheap.
At the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Meryl Streep was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award and gave a politically-charged acceptance speech about the importance of diversity and freedom. Though she did not reference President-elect Donald Trump by name, she mentioned a moment when "the person asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a disabled reporter, someone he outranked in privilege, power, and the capacity to fight back."
The Department of Agriculture says the estimated cost of raising a child from birth through age 17 is $233,610, or as much as almost $14,000 annually. That's the average for a middle-income couple with two children.
Meryl Streep's acceptance speech after receiving a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes turned out to be the opening volley in a war of words with President-elect Donald Trump. The actress never mentioned Trump by name, but it was clear who her target was in pointedly saying that a performance from the past year that stunned her came from the campaign trail.
He didn't have long. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. took office in March 2016 after President Obama's long-serving Secretary, Arne Duncan, stepped down at the end of 2015.
After Meryl Streep gave her speech at the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday, President-elect Donald Trump called her a "Hillary lover" in an interview with The New York Times. Remember last year's hashtag-fueled protest - #OscarsSoWhite - decrying the lack of diversity at Hollywood's most hyped awards show? On Sunday night, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association showed up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences by rewarding a wider range of talent at the 2017 Golden Globes.
Meryl Streep is a "Hillary lover" and one of the "liberal movie people" who have deliberately misconstrued what was his intention when he imitated a physically challenged New York Times reporter at a rally speech during his campaign, Donald Trump said after the Golden Globe Awards ceremony, in an interview with the New York Times. Trump said he had not seen Streep's speech, or any of the other remarks made about him during the awards ceremony broadcast on NBC, but was "not surprised" to have been attacked by "liberal movie people," NYT reported.
Hollywood unleashed its contempt for Donald Trump Sunday night as the Golden Globes turned into a roast of the President-elect. Host Jimmy Fallon kicked off the awards show - the first major red-carpet style event since last November's election - with a wisecrack-filled monologue aimed at the billionaire before award winners, including Hugh Laurie and Meryl Streep, got their shots in.
Bright Lights would have been entertaining even if both women had still been with us. But now, so sadly, it takes on whole other layers Perseverance has characterized the career of filmmaker Emily Hagins ever since she helmed her first feature at age 12. Aided by her supportive parents and the creative community of Austin, Hagins was able to realize her dream several years before many of her peers attended their first day of film school.
As the new Congress convenes, budget cutters are eyeing Medicare, citing forecasts the program for seniors is running out of money. But federal bean counters have erroneously predicted Medicare's bankruptcy for decades.