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Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The persistent heat wave in the Pacific Northwest has been blamed for hundreds of deaths in Oregon and Washington and into Canada. It's a scenario [...]

Byline: Edward Segarra and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY As a teen, Ava Devine didn't have the words to fully describe their gender, nor a peer group for guidance and reassurance. [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The death toll from the February freeze in Texas and collapse of the statewide electric power grid rose this week as state officials added 59 [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY A man and a 3-year-old child are dead and another man is missing after currents Friday swept them out to sea at a Tampa beach [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The pandemic has created financial challenges for many nonprofits and municipal organizations aimed at helping their communities. Groups can get a helping hand by applying [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren Restrictions were lifted ahead of Memorial Day for vaccinated individuals at the nation's cemeteries dedicated to vets, another step on the path back to normalcy after more [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Two reporters for the USA TODAY Network were arrested Wednesday night while covering a protest in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Ayano Nagaishi and Alison Cutler [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Finding good child care challenged many Americans even before COVID-19. Things got tougher during the pandemic, when many day care centers closed, leaving parents to [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Federal agents fired on an armed man outside CIA headquarters in McLean, Virginia, during a standoff that lasted hours Monday. NBC News, citing two law [...]

Byline: Ryan W. Miller, Eric Ferkenhoff and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. - The police officer who fatally shot a 20-year-old Black man during a traffic stop may [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren USA TODAY In late January last year, University of Washington junior Jake Goldstein-Street wrote and published an article for his school newspaper about three students who had [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO - A recent surge in assaults and harassment of Asian Americans in Northern California has mobilized activists, organizers, and those that live there [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The Equality Act, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, is moving to the Senate after being passed [...]

Byline: Erin Richards, Elinor Aspegren, and Erin Mansfield, USA TODAY In Los Angeles, special education teacher Jaime Lozano strives to keep the attention of his elementary students during online classes. [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren USA TODAY Adam Millar was 18 when he started to experience a cold that wouldn't go away. It was the middle of hockey season, so he brushed [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Teachers should be among the essential workers next in line for a COVID-19 vaccine, an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY When Proposition 16 did not pass in California in November, leaving a ban on affirmative action in place, Naomi Waters was dismayed but not surprised. [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Student loan borrowers won't have to make payments until the end of January, the U.S. Education Department said Friday, extending a reprieve through the first [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Weise and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Charter flights bringing Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to the United States from Belgium began on Friday, the start of what the Federal Aviation [...]

Byline: Erin Richards and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The dominos are beginning to fall at America's schools. After weeks or months of operating in person, schools are shifting students back [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Young people have turned to digital devices to fill holes left by the COVID-19 pandemic, a practice that elevates depression, anxiety and hopelessness, suggests a [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Some college students are just trying to navigate a socially distant trip home for Thanksgiving. Other students feel stuck at the midpoint of their college [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The Libertarian Party earned a historic victory Tuesday, clinching a statehouse seat for the first time in nearly two decades. Marshall Burt was elected to [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY A record number of transgender and gender nonconforming people - 32 - have been killed by violence this year, according to the Human Rights Campaign. [...]

Byline: Erin Richards and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Colleges aren't the only schools that have had to close their doors soon after reopening. And in some cases, school officials are [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Dr. Scott Asnis' dental office in Bellmore, New York, looks a lot different than it did in February. Today, after checking in inside - where [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Most facilities that offer standardized tests have canceled test dates or offered remote testing as COVID-19 cases rise. But two major tests are still offered [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The 11th-largest school district in the U.S. has renamed a high school formerly known as Robert E. Lee High School after civil rights icon John [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY As COVID-19 cases rise in most states, the prospect of in-person learning this fall at the country's major school districts is becoming increasingly remote. As [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY Even as they recommended working to reopen schools in-person, the nation's science academies warned, 'It is likely that someone in the school community will contract [...]

Byline: Ryan McKinnon and Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY NETWORK Christy Karwatt teaches social studies, but she's been thinking more like a math teacher the past few days. Back to school [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people not to use certain hand sanitizer products because they may contain methanol, a toxic substance when [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren and Samuel Zwickel, USA TODAY Michigan State University President Samuel Stanley says he knows the coronavirus will spread if students come back to campus in the fall. [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY For students and teachers who want to curb bullying at their schools, one solution could be establishing a Gay-Straight Alliance. The presence of a GSA [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY The event started out as a joke. Then the RSVP list grew to 2 million. Now, the creators of the viral space oddity 'Storm Area [...]

Byline: Elinor Aspegren, USA TODAY A Japanese science project carries the potential for a futuristic resolution to the shortage of organs and organ donors. Scientists plan to experiment with stem [...]