Tabla de contenidos para September 12, 2025 en ScoopUSA Digital

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a quarter century has passed since the September 11, 2001, attacks, but for many, the emotions of the day remain raw as ever. On Thursday, America marked the 24th anniversary of the deadly attacks with solemn ceremonies at commemorations in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, punctuated by moments of silence, the tolling of bells, and the reading of the names of the nearly 3,000 killed. Jennifer Nilsen, whose husband, Troy Nilsen, perished in the World Trade Center, was among those wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an image of a lost loved one as she attended the commemoration at ground zero in lower Manhattan. “Even 24 years later, it’s heart-wrenching. It feels the same way every year,” she said. Michelle Pizzo, who…

As I travel around the country promoting my new book, “Coming Up Short” (which, please remember, you can order at bookshop.org, and the audiobook at libro.fm), I’m seeing a groundswell of revulsion against Trump. His economy is a disaster. He promised to bring down prices, yet the prices of most goods are rising. Food prices are soaring. Job growth has stalled. American manufacturing has contracted for six straight months. Trump’s poll numbers are dropping like stones. The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt him. He’s now trying to deflect attention from his failures by renaming the Department of Defense the War Department and threatening to occupy, if not go to war with, Chicago (“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” read a recent White…

Barry Eugene Carter, widely known as Barry White, was a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and arranger. His music primarily focused on funk, rhythm and blues, soul, and disco. Throughout his career, he achieved remarkable success, generating 106 gold and 41 platinum albums, along with 20 gold and 10 platinum records, totaling over 100 million records sold worldwide. Born on September 12, 1944, to Melvin White and Sadie Carter in Galveston, Texas, White was raised by his mother after she moved him and his brother, Darryl, to South Central Los Angeles when he was just six months old. He grew up singing in the church choir, and his mother taught him how to play the piano. White’s first recording opportunity came at the age of 11 when he played…

The Trump administration is reviewing material about slavery, the destruction of Native American culture, climate change, and more at federal parks after employees flagged information that could be “disparaging” to Americans, according to screenshots shared with The Associated Press. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in March directing the Interior Department — which manages parks, monuments, and other designated land — to ensure public property doesn’t contain elements that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living.” Instead, it said to “focus on the greatness of the achievements and progress of the American people” and “the beauty, abundance, and grandeur of the American landscape.” The National Park Service had until July 18 to flag “inappropriate” signs, exhibits, and other material, according to a document shared with the AP by the National…

Two words. Two worlds. Yet, far too often, they get tangled together in our minds: hustle and con. At first glance, they might seem like cousins—both involve effort, strategy, and a determination to get something done. But if we take a closer look, we’ll see they are as different as sunlight and shadow. The word hustle has carried an unfortunate reputation for decades. Many people hear it and immediately think of something shady—illegal deals, back-alley exchanges, quick money schemes. It’s been tied to images of the underworld, where morals are bent and rules are broken. But that’s only one side of the story, and it’s a distorted one. At its core, the hustle is simply the mindset of making things happen—legitimately, passionately, and persistently. To hustle the right way means…

PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 10, 2025 — The School District of Philadelphia launched the Facilities Data Dashboard. This website publicly provides data in four facilities decision-making category areas: School Building, Program Alignment, Capacity/Utilization, and Neighborhood Vulnerability. The goal of the District’s facilities planning process is to increase access to high-quality academic and extracurricular programs across neighborhoods, recognizing that many of the District’s aging facilities are either under-enrolled or over-enrolled. To more efficiently utilize our limited staff and facility resources, the District will consider a complex set of data and recommend one or more of the following options to the Board of Education: maintain, modernize, co-locate, repurpose, or close selected schools. “The data reaffirms the District’s need to increase access to high-quality academic and extracurricular programs across neighborhoods, recognizing that many of…

HARRISBURG, PA, September 9, 2025 – One year after Governor Shapiro signed Executive Order 2024-02, re-establishing the Pennsylvania Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP), the Shapiro-Davis Administration recognizes the critical progress the office has made over the last year to keep Pennsylvanians safe, and is marking the milestone by continuing to build on its work and bringing together stakeholders from across the Commonwealth for its first Advisory Group convening. “Today’s convening marks a key step in our fight against gun violence and highlights the critical work that we’ve done over the past year to understand better and address the trends,” said Lt. Gov. Austin Davis, Chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD). “By bringing together committed individuals from every corner of the Commonwealth, we are turning research…