Aspen University's Phoenix program could face closure; Lottery numbers for Mega Millions; How to build a monarch butterfly habitat
A look at some of today's top stories, the weather forecast and a peek back in history.
Aspen needs an 80% or higher first-time pass rate for the nursing licensure exam this year, but so far for 2022, its pass rate is 69.4%.
Here are the winning numbers for the Friday, July 29 Mega Millions drawing. The jackpot is $1.28 billion.
Monarch butterflies are at risk across North America. You can help them. Here's how to build a butterfly habitat in your yard and other monarch facts.
Today, you can expect chances of thunderstorms, with a high near 100 degrees. Storm chances continue at night, with a low near 84 degrees. Get the full forecast here.
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Today in history
On this day in 1945, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, having just delivered components of the atomic bomb to Tinian in the Mariana Islands, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 317 out of nearly 1,200 men survived.
In 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure making “In God We Trust” the national motto, replacing “E Pluribus Unum” (Out of many, one).
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a measure creating Medicare, which began operating the following year.
In 2016, 16 people died when a hot air balloon caught fire and exploded after hitting high-tension power lines before crashing into a pasture near Lockhart, Texas, about 60 miles northeast of San Antonio.
In 2020, John Lewis was eulogized in Atlanta by three former presidents and others who urged Americans to continue the work of the civil rights icon in fighting injustice during a moment of racial reckoning. Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and former CEO of a pizza chain who became an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, died in Atlanta of complications from the coronavirus at the age of 74; he was hospitalized less than two weeks after attending Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was photographed not wearing a mask.
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