Soundtrack to Carnival: KIPP East Marching Eagles deliver a sound beyond their years

The KIPP East Marching Eagles deliver a powerful sound, showcasing discipline, talent, and the value of early music education.
STAT

Top CDC vaccine adviser questions need for polio shot, other longstanding recommendations

The chair of a federal vaccine advisory panel charted a new course for the committee in a podcast released Thursday, ...

Where do former HISD students, teachers go? Often suburban schools and charters, report shows

More than 13,200 students have left Houston ISD since the state takeover in June 2023. While hundreds of them left public ...
KTLA

Study finds Southern California bird species evolved during pandemic: Here’s why

The COVID-19 pandemic changed a lot for human society – but it also caused a local species of bird to rapidly evolve, according to a recent study. Dark-eyed juncos typically live in mountain forests ...
The New York Times

How the Pandemic Lockdowns Changed a Songbird’s Beak

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. By Emily Anthes About two decades ago, the dark-eyed junco ...
The Grio

Sandra Lindsay reflects on pandemic and being first person in U.S. to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Five years ago, on Dec. 14, 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to a standstill and inflicted devastating consequences for months on end — with more than 300,000 people dead in the ...
Christian Science Monitor

Tracking pandemic aid fraud: Five years on, the toll continues to grow

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
CBS News

U.S. arrests plummet 25% since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, analysis finds

Anna Schecter is the senior coordinating producer for CBS News and Stations' Crime and Public Safety Unit, based in New York. Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on ...
Reuters

Bird flu virus could risk pandemic worse than COVID if it mutates, France's Institut Pasteur says

PARIS, Nov 27 (Reuters) - The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if it mutates to transmit between humans, the ...
Yahoo

Bird flu poses risk of pandemic worse than COVID, France's Institut Pasteur says

PARIS (Reuters) -The bird flu virus that has been spreading among wild birds, poultry and mammals could lead to a pandemic worse than COVID-19 if the virus mutates to transmit between humans, the head ...
CNN

UK’s Covid response was ‘too little, too late’ and cost thousands of lives, inquiry says

The United Kingdom did “too little, too late,” in its early response to the coronavirus pandemic, leading to thousands of more deaths, the head of the UK Covid-19 Inquiry said as its latest findings ...
Next City

Does Shuttering a School Impact Neighborhood Violence?

View from the street outside Fairhill Elementary School. The building has been empty since 2013. (Photo by Melissa Simpson) This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or ...