Domestic Glance
After T’Roya Jackson discovered the paint in her apartment gave her daughter lead poisoning, she and her children moved out.
They couch-surfed for a while before moving into a homeless shelter over the summer. The hair stylist began looking for a rental that will accept her hard-won housing voucher – all while caring for her five children, including a newborn.
“It’s been extremely difficult,” she told USA TODAY, recounting how she’s tried to keep her oldest children – ages 14, 9 and 8 – in school, paying for taxis to take them to class and ensuring they have some quiet study time, a challenge in their cramped one-bedroom unit.
Jackson and her family are not alone: Nationwide, hundreds of thousands of homeless students are in hotels, doubled up in apartments or living in shelters. Most of them are with at least one parent or guardian, though many are unaccompanied.
The number of students grappling with unstable housing has jumped in recent years, a continuation of a decadeslong trend, and a troubling sign that a deepening housing crisis is hurting the country’s youngest and most vulnerable people.
Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.
Screen siren Brigitte Bardot, whose portrayals of free-spirited ingenues made her an international sex symbol and the pride of France, and who turned her back on movie stardom in 1973 to become an animal rights activist, has died, according to French media and The Associated Press.
The "ball" is dropping twice to ring in 2026.
A new year means a new parade of classic characters and works entering the public domain.
An explosion at a nursing home just outside Philadelphia collapsed part of the building and has left at least two people dead, and five others unaccounted for. The exact number of those injured and trapped inside has yet to be announced, authorities said.
