A 2024 study, commissioned by Yoto Mini, found 55% of parents feel overwhelmed at the thought of keeping their kids entertained for six straight weeks. While summer break has long been seen as a childhood rite of passage, not everyone is convinced it’s still serving kids, or parents, well. Could switching to a year-round school schedule actually help children do better, feel happier and stay healthier? As more schools explore year-round class options, many ask: Is it time to rethink summer break? What are experts saying about it, and its pros and cons? Keeps learning fresh all year long One big benefit of canceling summer break is reducing the dreaded summer slide, where students may experience learning loss during the extended vacation.

Millions of Americans are seeing their credit scores suffer now that the U.S. government has resumed referring missed student loan payments for debt collection. After 90 days of non-payment, student loan servicers report delinquent, or past-due, accounts to major credit bureaus, which use the information to recalculate the borrower’s score. Falling behind on loan payments therefore can affect an individual’s credit rating as severely as filing for personal bankruptcy. A lower credit score makes it harder or more expensive to obtain car loans, mortgages, credit cards, auto insurance and other financial services at a time when inflation, high interest rates, and layoffs have strained the resources of some consumers.

WATCH: Massive airstrikes being carried out by the Israeli Air Force over Tehran.

Security camera footage made public on Monday captured the devastating scene as an Iranian missile struck a residential complex in Petach Tikva in the early hours, erupting into a massive fireball upon contact.
The tragic attack claimed the lives of four people. According to an initial assessment from the Home Front Command, two of those who died had taken shelter in a reinforced room (mamad), but the missile hit the area between two such protected spaces in the structure.
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Another casualty appears to have been in an apartment located directly above the point of impact, while a fourth individual lost their life in a neighboring building, likely due to the immense force of the explosion.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin on behalf of a white dairy farmer, Adam Faust. Faust was among several farmers who successfully sued the Biden administration in 2021 for race discrimination in the USDA’s Farmer Loan Forgiveness Plan. The new lawsuit alleges the government has continued to implement diversity, equity and inclusion programs that were instituted under former President Joe Biden.

The IDF has released footage showing airstrikes on trucks it says were ferrying weapons to Tehran. Since this morning, the Israeli Air Force identified several trucks, carrying surface-to-air missile launchers and other weapons, moving from west Iran toward Tehran “in an attempt to escape IDF strikes.”

HY’D: The name of the victim killed in the missile strike in Bnei Brak early this morning has been released. Avraham Cohen, a local resident aged 75,, was killed as a result of the impact.