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Homeland Security said Tuesday that it has requested the Pentagon send 1,500 troops to help deal with a looming surge in illegal immigration. The 90-day deployment is needed because the Biden administration on May 11 will give up its Title 42 pandemic power to expel illegal immigrants, leaving it without a key tool that had kept the chaotic border from turning catastrophic. Homeland Security

North Carolina students made major gains last school year recovering from COVID-19 pandemic learning loss, according to a new state report presented Tuesday. A report presented to the N.C. House K-12 Education Committee showed that students in nearly every subject made academic gains in the 2021-22 school year after falling behind the prior year. In some cases, the learning recovery time from

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) reportedly has severe reservations over the nomination of Julie Su, who oversaw billions in pandemic relief fraud during her time as a senior official in California, to replace Labor Secretary Marty Walsh.

Su led the California Labor Department, which oversees the state’s Employment Development Department, as one-tenth of the $114 billion in pandemic relief

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. cases of a dangerous fungus tripled over just three years, and more than half of states have now reported it, according to a new study. The COVID-19 pandemic likely drove part of the increase, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wrote in the paper published Monday by Annals of Internal Medicine. Hospital workers were strained by coronavirus