When late entertainer Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1962, he was not just changing the lives of children who would walk through its doors—he was changing lives across the world. When St. Jude completed its $1 billion, five-year expansion in 2005. read more at http://www.stjude.org/stjude/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=7dcb13c016118010VgnVCM1000000e2015acRCRD
We’re doing this now because the politics we believe in does not start with expensive TV ads or extravaganzas, but with you — with people organizing block-by-block, talking to neighbors, co-workers, and friends. And that kind of campaign takes time to build,” Obama said in an e-mail to supporters. He told them he was filing […]
Routine screening of newborns for hearing loss, which is required in most states, has helped thousands of babies each year by getting them hearing aids and other treatments early, giving them a better chance of developing speech. But many pediatric hearing experts worry the flip side to newborn screening is that children with auditory neuropathy, […]
Approximately 2,000 bodies were found Monday in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan’s northeast coast, the Kyodo news agency reported. If confirmed, the discovery would be the largest yet of victims from last week’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. Roughly 1,000 bodies were found coming ashore on Miyagi’s Ojika Peninsula, while another 1,000 were seen in the town […]
He outlined three “sound and effective” steps to keep “those irresponsible, law-breaking few from getting their hands on a gun in the first place,” including enforcing laws already on the books, rewarding states that provide the best data and therefore do the most to protect their citizens and making the system for background checks “faster […]
A contentious political battle that brought thousands to the state Capitol drew to a close Friday as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed into law a bill that curbs the bargaining rights of most state workers. “We were elected to make tough decisions,” Walker told reporters, lauding his administration’s efforts to prevent employee layoffs and tax […]
An estimated 100-200 protesters spent the night at the state Capitol, police told CNN. Senate Republicans got around a long-running Democratic walkout on Wednesday evening by stripping financial provisions from the bill. “Tonight, the Senate will be passing the items in the Budget Repair Bill that we can with the 19 members who actually do […]
Raleigh, N.C. — School district leaders in Wake County are turning over hundreds of documents to federal investigators in response to a charge that a controversial new student assignment policy will create unequal, high-poverty schools, but some requested data was missing. The Office for Civil Rights asked the school board to submit data showing how […]
RALEIGH, N.C. — A rewrite of North Carolina’s charter school law headed for a floor vote in the legislature incorporates a Republican promise during the campaign – ending the current 100-school cap. The Senate scheduled floor debate Wednesday before the first or two required votes. The legislation also would create a new commission tRALEIGH, N.C. […]
Hours after Libya’s former interior minister said he resigned to support anti-government protesters, the Libyan government said he had been kidnapped. Abdul Fattah Younis al Abidi told CNN Wednesday that he resigned Monday after hearing that 300 unarmed civilians had been killed in Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city. He accused Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi of planning […]