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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

Some "simple math" indicates that oil prices need to rise to balance out the huge supply disruption triggered by the Iran war, JPMorgan analyst Natasha Kaneva wrote in a note this week. Brent oil ...

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In Nigeria’s already fragile information environment, numbers have enormous power. When a public official declares that ₦210 trillion has gone missing, the figure is large enough to shock citizens, ...