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How do math skills compare around the world?This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks participating countries and economies by the average mathematics scores of 15-year-old students in the most recent PISA 2025 study, published in September 2026.PISA assesses students in mathematics, reading, and science. Its mathematics assessment goes beyond memorizing formulas or procedures, measuring whether students can apply mathematical knowledge and reasoning to real-world problems.More than 760,000 students took part in PISA 2025 across 91 countries and economies, representing roughly 33 million 15-year-olds worldwide.China in this ranking represents the participating jurisdictions of Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang. Uzbekistan is...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Forty-three percent of Americans now have a positive view of socialism, marking the first time this figure has exceeded 39% in Gallup’s trend since 2010. Socialism still trails capitalism and free enterprise in public favorability but now ranks ahead of big business. Small business remains the clear leader among the five economic concepts tested, with 95% viewing it positively. Gallup has measured Americans’ overall views of these five economic concepts periodically since 2010, with the latest update conducted Aug. 3-24. Over the longer term, Americans have become less positive about most of the market-oriented concepts Gallup tracks....

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health advisers on Wednesday endorsed a blood test designed to spot signs of various cancers in apparently healthy people while warning that it’s far from clear how well the technology works. Grail Inc.’s Galleri test doesn’t diagnose cancer but instead, with a single blood draw, looks for a signal that someone may have one of a long list of tumors. Those who receive a positive result need additional care to tell if they’re really sick. The Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel voted 7-2, with one abstention, that the DNA-based test offers more potential benefits than...

Northern Ireland Friends of Israel.They want you to believe that Israel is isolated on the world stage.Here we list what the leaders of 75 nations around the world have said about strengthening relations with Israel since 2023.It is difficult to think of any other country as small as Israel inspiring such warm friendship and admiration from around the world.Whether you are a friend of Israel or not, you owe it to yourself to sit down, have a cup of tea and scan down our list!Northern Ireland Friends of IsraelAlbania.Name & Title: Edi Rama, Prime MinisterDate: 26 January 2026Quote: Albania is...

A pro-transgender counterprotester told supporters of Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham that they "should have been aborted" outside the Fever’s game against the Minnesota Lynx on Thursday night. The man delivered the remark through a bullhorn while wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the word "abortion," as Cunningham supporters gathered outside Target Center for a rally in support of protecting women’s sports. Another counterprotester used a bullhorn to repeatedly call XX-XY Athletics — a women’s sports apparel company that opposes biological males competing in women’s sports — a "hate group." NCAA softball player Kendall Kotzmacher, who attended Thursday’s rally, told OutKick...

When a $20,000 Trumpet Failed live at the Diamondbacks game

This is absolutely ridiculous. First off the entire woke media dragged a kid, the Texas quarterback Manning, for laughing a fake video. They said he was condoning violence against women and treated him as like they treat President Trump. The "lighten up Francis" scene comes to mind. He's a young twenty something kid who plays football and will one day wear a super bowl ring and all he did was laugh at a funny fake video. And then they scrub the fake video from the internet. Censorship pure and simple. I'm very surprised that Grok will not help me find...

IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR KING! SONG DEVOTIONAL Beloved, the day is coming when our precious Lord Jesus Christ will reign as King over all the earth for a thousand years in truth and RIGHTEOUSNESS. Every promise our Heavenly Father has ever spoken concerning His Son will be fulfilled exactly as He has declared during this time. Israel will indeed know her Messiah, at this time after centuries of rebellion, and the redeemed remnant of the gentile nations will come up to Jerusalem to worship the King of the Jews! It will be the Fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles...

The Feast of Tabernacles' prophetic fulfillment will be the Kingdom Age under the reign of the returning Messiah of Israel over the remaining nations of the world (Isa. 2: 1-5, 11:1-10; Micah 4:1-4; Zech. 8:21-23; 14:9, 16-21, etc.). Throughout the Old Testament and Israel's continual rebellion, Almighty God always pointed to "that Day" in which His people would return to Him, and He would restore them and be their God. It will be at Messiah's Second Coming that this wondrous future for Israel shall be finally fulfilled (Isa. 4:2; 26:1-3; 52:6; Jer. 3:8, 18-19; 16:14-19; 23:5; 30:1-3; 8-24; 32:37; Ezek....

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allied military and the family members of the above.Honoring those who have served before. FReeper Canteen Cafe Come on in, we're open Need a place just to hang out? This is it. It's casual FRiday here at the Canteen. Pull up a seat and relax. We serve coffee, tea, conversation and music. Our AWESOME military, our AWESOME allies, and their families are welcomed and honored here. No worries in the FReeper Canteen Just Hangin' Cafe. Grab a cup or a glass, and start a conversation....

The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday that it had eliminated Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad, a Hamas commander who, according to the military, held seven hostages in a Gaza tunnel during the war. Awad, who was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza City area over the weekend, took part in holding hostages Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, Doron Steinbrecher, Naama Levy, Ziv Berman, Omri Miran and Eitan Mor, according to the military. Awad had recently planned terror attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, and also worked to rebuild Hamas’s capabilities “in systematic violation of the ceasefire,” the IDF said. “Prior...

Title: President Trump and the President of China Deliver Remarks at a State Dinner Channel: The White House Upload/context date: Around September 24–25, 2026 This is an official White House video showing remarks delivered by U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping during a state dinner. It captures formal speeches or toasts from both leaders at the event.

President Donald Trump will attend Saturday's college football game at Tennessee between No. 1 Texas and the No. 14 Volunteers, a source confirmed to CBS Sports' Richard Johnson. The noon Eastern showdown comes less than six weeks before November's midterm elections, and as the fate of the Protect College Sports Act hangs in the balance. Trump is a proponent of the PCSA, which would introduce a federal framework to the collegiate sports landscape, rife with chaos over issues of eligibility and compensation. However, the bill still faces legislative hurdles and has not been formally voted on in the House or...

Sept 24 (Reuters) - A US appeals court has for now reinstated an Ohio law requiring residents to present documentary proof of ​citizenship when registering to vote at the state's motor ‌vehicle offices, in a boost for allies of President Donald Trump who want tighter voter registration rules. SNIP

In an unprecedented legal action, an aborted baby won a wrongful death lawsuit settlement against the abortionist who killed him or her. The estate of a 26-week-old aborted child has collected $200,000 in a New Mexico wrongful-death settlement, in what attorneys on the case call the first payout of its kind to an aborted baby treated as a person under state law. The case, Wabbington v. Boyd, was settled and dismissed with prejudice on Sept. 14. The defendants were late-term abortionist Curtis Wayne Boyd, who then operated as Southwestern Women’s Options; Emily Cohen; and the late Carmen Landau. The complaint...

A new poll indicates longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins is ahead of her Democratic challenger in a crucial Senate showdown in blue-leaning Maine. Collins, who is running for a sixth six-year term in the Senate, stands at 49% support among likely voters, with former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee, at 46%, with 5% undecided in the New York Times/Siena poll. Collins' three-point edge is within the survey's margin of error. Democrats are heavily targeting Collins as they work to flip the seat, which is key to their efforts to win back the Senate majority from the Republicans...

A sick hospital nurse is accused of beating a 4-month-old baby girl who was born prematurely, leaving her badly battered just before she was finally set to be sent home, police said. Kieran Ansley, 43, a nurse at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan, allegedly assaulted the baby, who was found by her mother with broken leg bones and bruises on her hands, arms, thigh, buttocks, abdomen and even her tongue. “The totality of the findings resulted in a diagnosis of pediatric physical abuse,” officials allege in court documents obtained by WOOD-TV. The baby girl was born in...

Muse, Meta’s A.I. agent, helped handle my dental insurance, booked dinner reservations and created a podcast for me. It also required my most personal data, and trust.Last week, I answered a call from an unknown number. “I reached Anthem Dental and am about to connect you,” a voice piped up.The call was from an artificial intelligence “agent” created by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Ten minutes earlier, the A.I. agent had called my dental insurer, given it my member ID, answered a security question and waited on hold before transferring me to the representative — just as I had...

Washington (AP) — Two leading progressive lawmakers, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar, are unveiling legislation Wednesday that would ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to oversee advanced AI as some of the industry’s own leaders urge Congress to impose guardrails on the advancing technology. The bill, provided first to The Associated Press, would also pause advanced AI development until guidelines are implemented while creating the Department of Artificial Intelligence. Multiple employees at leading AI companies are endorsing the bill. “It doesn’t take a genius to say, ‘slow it down,’” Sanders, I-Vt., said in an interview with...

A total of 781 migrants arrived in 10 small boats on Wednesday, the highest number for a single day so far this year, Home Office figures show. So far this year 18,565 people have made the Channel crossing, which is 42% lower than the same period in 2025 when 32,188 had crossed in small boats. The government said its "progress this year in tackling small boats is indisputable" but it needed to "push further and harder in order to eradicate this vile trade". French authorities reported on Thursday that a man had died after having a cardiac arrest while people...