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Call it a lesson in contemporary political discourse. Educators across America found themselves at the center of a political storm this week as conservatives exploded in anger over President Obama’s plans to give a speech to the country’s schoolchildren
The accused came from all walks of life: Retirees, dads and twentysomethings. An engineer, a business owner and an auto worker. A man in a wheelchair.
It is midday and girls are flooding out of school, but Nujood Ali is not among them. We find her at the family’s two-room house in an impoverished suburb of the city where Nujood is angry, combative and yelling
The H1N1 flu virus could cause up to 90,000 U.S.
A small plane crashed Friday near an Ohio-area high school during a football scrimmage. Spectators at a practice game at Harrison High School watched from the bleachers as the plane went down at 8:08 p.m. ET, said police officer Jennifer Coyle, who witnessed the incident
A man who was obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre was found guilty of murder Friday and sentenced to life without parole for gunning down his father before opening fire at a North Carolina high school three years ago. Alvaro Castillo, 21, has been medicated during the trial and showed little reaction as the first verdict was read — guilty of the first-degree murder of his father.
Americans shouldn’t expect to see the 62,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan come home any time soon, no matter who is declared the victor in the country’s presidential election. In fact, the Pentagon is planning to add 6,000 troops by the end of the year
If Washington wants health care reform with bipartisan support, experts say consider what former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did as governor in Democratic Massachusetts. “You don’t have to have a public option,” Romney said. “You don’t have to have the government getting into the insurance business to make it work.” Three years after enacting its own version of reform, Massachusetts now has near-universal coverage.
Absolutely! It’s a verbal virus that’s spreading unchecked on TV, radio and in print. Want to sound certain Want to remove all doubt Want to be a commentator on TV Absolutely.
Yin Jui-rong was one of the lucky ones.