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Investigators on Wednesday continued to search for a college student from the U.S. state of Virginia who vanished earlier this month while visiting the Dominican Republic with five other people during spring break from classes. Sudiksha Konanki was last seen on March 6 during a power outage at the Riu República Hotel in the beach resort town of Punta Cana.

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What to know about US student Sudiksha Konanki, who vanished in Dominican Republic on spring break

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Wed,03/12/25-10:57AM, 337 Reads
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Investigators continue to search for a college student from Virginia who vanished earlier this month while visiting the Dominican Republic with five other people during spring break f
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Seventh graders sit together in the cafeteria during their lunch break at a public school, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

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USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers

By ANNIE MA ANNIE MA - AP Education Writer
Wed,03/12/25-3:26PM, 199 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers.
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President Donald Trump, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin and U.S. lawmakers celebrated the "strong" and "unbreakable" friendship between the United States and Ireland Wednesday during the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon on Capitol Hill.

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Trump says Ireland cheats the US as its leader joins him to celebrate St. Patrick's Day

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press
Wed,03/12/25-4:10PM, 352 Reads
President Donald Trump welcomed Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday for the annual St.
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The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Eduction, which were ordered closed for the day for what officials described as security reasons amid large-scale layoffs, are seen Wednesday, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo

By COLLIN BINKLEY COLLIN BINKLEY - AP Education Writer
Wed,03/12/25-1:08PM, 167 Reads
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands
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What to know about US student Sudiksha Konanki, who vanished in Dominican Republic on spring break

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USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers

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Trump says Ireland cheats the US as its leader joins him to celebrate St. Patrick's Day

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Education Department layoffs gut its civil rights office, leaving discrimination cases in limbo

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