Putting learning to work

Summer Playground students Fabian Barrientos, left, and Damarian Bailey build pyramids from Legos after studying about Chichen Itza Mayan Pyramids in Cozumel during Cruise Week. CDN

(AP) – The U.S. government failed to take basic steps at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic to prevent fraud in a federal aid program intended to help small businesses, depleting the funds and making Americans more vulnerable to identity theft, the head of a congressional panel examining the payouts said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a legal case closely watched by libraries and the publishing industry, a federal judge in Maryland struck down a state law requiring publishers to make e-books available on “reasonable terms” to libraries if they were also being offered to the general public.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature will return to the Capitol for a special session to consider tax cuts the governor wants and how to allocate federal COVID-19 relief funds that were part of the American Rescue Plan Act.

Making it fit

Summer Playground student Axel Perez works on a puzzle during “Puzzle Day” in TNT (This and That). CDN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s closest campaign advisers, top government officials and even his family were dismantling his false claims of 2020 voting fraud on election night, but the defeated president was becoming “detached from reality,” clinging to outlandish theories to stay in power, several said.

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Focusing on artwork

Summer Playground student Hidekel Solorio works on a Q-tip painting in Designs and Doodles. CDN

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