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Democrats , civil rights groups ask to extend voter registration deadlines in hurricane-ravaged states.
A judge in South Carolina on Friday extended that state's deadline to Oct. 14 , but prospects are uncertain in other hard-hit states.
In North Carolina , election officials aren’t planning to extend the Oct. 11 voter registration deadline.
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Scheme to be offered at all residential special schools and colleges in England to reach 18,000 pupils.
Students with learning disabilities struggle to say when they experience problems, meaning important diagnoses may be missed.
Linden Lodge School in South London was part of the pilot study doing hearing checks and its staff say their students have hugely benefited.
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WNDU-TV: President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit South Bend on Saturday, Oct. 5 .
No estimated time of arrival in South Bend was given; no estimated arrival was given.
Sources say it would be for a wedding or a reception, not a political event.
Law enforcement officials throughout St. Joseph County preparing for the visit.
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Oklahoma 's education department quietly made changes that will cause big jumps in state test scores.
The state agency did not disclose the impact before releasing test scores this month .
School district leaders say the upswing is due in large part to a new scoring system rather than improvements in public school performance.
The last time Oklahoma test results changed so dramatically was in 2017 when the state updated its scoring methods to align with national standards.
The 2017 revision caused proficiency levels to drop by as much as 43% in a single year .
In Watonga Public Schools, Superintendent Kyle Hilterbran said the leap in statewide averages told him the state must have reset its scores.
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An experimental blood test detects early-stage pancreatic cancer more effectively than other available tests.
The new test works by detecting two sugars that are produced by cancer cells.
The next step is to evaluate the test’s effectiveness in a clinical lab rather than academic lab.
The combination test also greatly reduced the number of false negatives.
Image Credit: Pancreatic tissue with the biomarker CA199.STRA in yellow. Courtesy of the Haab Lab , Van Andel Institute .
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One-minute mobile phone breaks in college classrooms could result in more focus, less mobile use during lectures, and higher test scores.
Phones can be useful tools for teachers to remind pupils of deadlines or encourage more exchange between students and teachers.
Researchers at Southern Illinois University investigated if letting students use their phones for very brief amounts of time can enhance classroom performance and reduce mobile use.
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2 Philippine nannies arrested in Busan after absence from work.
They left their quarters on Sept. 15 , the second day of a five-day Chuseok holiday.
They were supposed to return to work by Sept. 18 but did not.
The immigration office plans to investigate the helpers and order them to leave the country.
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Indian troops kill 31 suspected Maoist rebels in forest battle in Chhattisgarh state.
Indian troops cornered nearly 50 suspected rebels in the Abhujmaad forest area.
Indian soldiers have been battling the rebels across several central and northern states since 1967 .
The insurgents are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong .
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Researchers created a ray-like swimming robot with a computer brain that controls human muscle cells activated by human motor neurons.
Researchers cultured both motor neurons and cardiomyocytes that were produced using human pluripotent stem cells.
The researchers were able to make it swim at speeds of up to 0.52 0.22 mm/s.
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A new app that uses AI to identify bees is set to help researchers across the U.S. to track bee populations.
BeeMachine is a smartphone app available not only to researchers, but to the general public.
Tracking where bees appear is essential to identifying and protecting endangered species.