A bill to increase reporting on literacy testing schools conduct for K-3 students got house approval.
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Rehoboth City Commissioners approve six all-way stop sign installments on some of their busiest streets.
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The new facility will more than double the available gallery space, allowing the museum to showcase temporary exhibitions and more of its permanent collection.
This Week on "The Green"
Several fixtures in Delaware state politics have announced they won’t seek reelection this year, some after decades in their seat. Their decisions to step aside leave room for new faces and the possibility a seat could flip to the other party.Incumbents opting to leave has become a bit of a trend in the First State. In both 2022 and 2024, multiple incumbents didn’t pursue their seats in the General Assembly again.This week, Delaware Public Media political reporter Bente Bouthier dove into this trend and implications of this round of retirements with University of Delaware professor Paul Brewer - who specializes in political communication and public opinion.
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Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentifiable anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.
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Some schools are warning users not to log back into Canvas yet, after a ransomware group claimed credit for a data breach. Half of North America's higher education institutions use the platform.
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In Colombia, a plan to cull Pablo Escobar's invasive hippos is challenged by an Indian billionaire's offer to relocate dozens of the animals to India's wildlife reserve instead.
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Is the new report an indication of resilience in a period of economic uncertainty? Or has the fallout from the Iran war just not hit the labor market yet?
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Democrats are facing election headwinds as Southern states begin to redraw voting maps ahead of November elections.
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Jewel has a new single "Upon Meeting the Goddess of Love."
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