内容摘要：In mid-May, some recent graduates received letters threatening to terminate their status if they did not update their employment records. While the letters gave them an opportunity to fix any reporting issues, it sent another wave of uncertainty through international graduates.

In mid-May, some recent graduates received letters threatening to terminate their status if they did not update their employment records. While the letters gave them an opportunity to fix any reporting issues, it sent another wave of uncertainty through international graduates.

in 2021, never contended again, even though she had two more years before she aged out of the competition. Spellers can’t be older than 15 or past the eighth grade.Then came Vikram, who didn’t make it back in 2023 after a regional bee in Denver that lasted 53 rounds over a span of more than five hours. Vikram and his parents unsuccessfully appealed to Scripps that he misspelled because the bee’s pronouncer made one of several mistakes.

Now 15, Vikram returned to the bee to support his younger brother, Ved — who bowed out in the semifinals — and he’s long past any bitter feelings about how his spelling career ended.“Even if you know every single word in the dictionary, there are just factors that are completely out of your control,” Vikram said. “The nerves might get too big someday. Maybe the audience is distracting you in that one moment. Maybe your tongue slips. Maybe you get too excited.”“I don’t want to say that luck is the most important factor, but it’s a huge factor in this competition,” he continued.

Jacques Bailly has been the bee’s lead pronouncer for 22 years, or nearly three times as long as this year’s youngest speller has been alive.Yet meeting Bailly was the highlight of a precocious bee debut for Zachary Teoh, an 8-year-old second-grader from Houston.

“We got to read the dictionary together!” Zachary exclaimed.

Zachary was better than half the field in his bee debut. Out of 243 spellers, his official placement was a tie for 74th place after he bowed out on a vocabulary word — “manifold” — during the quarterfinals. He said he felt like it was among the more difficult vocabulary questions, and he knew how to spell the word even though he couldn’t define it.NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenlanders have been pushed

in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland. Most say they don’t want to be American. Many are worried and overwhelmed by the comments and the attention. But also hopeful. They say Trump’s comments have ignited unprecedented interest in full independence from Denmark — a key issue in a parliamentary election on March 11. Here’s a look at various elements of Greenland’s remarkable circumstances:Greenland is vital to the world, though much of the world may not realize it.

its strategic location in the Arctic; its valuable rare earth minerals trapped under the ice needed for telecommunications; its billions of barrels of untapped oil. There’s also potential for shipping and trade routes as the ice that covers most of Greenland keeps retreating because of climate change. If that ice melts, it would reshape coastlines across the globe and potentially shift weather patterns.Greenland is massive — about one-fifth the size of the United States or three times the size of Texas. Its land mass is part of North America, and its capital city is closer to New York than to Copenhagen.