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... mark in new poll ‘Moment of testing’ on Ukraine; searching for unity from the West on Islamic State: President Barack Obama continues his trip abroad for the NATO meeting in Wales. On Wednesday afternoon in Estonia, he addressed the situation in Ukraine, calling it a “moment of testing” for the ...
... on border plan Pew poll finds support for accelerating legal process Clinton, undecided leading the 2016 pack Plus daily trivia and Line Items Congress still searching for consensus on border plan: With Congress closing in on its month-long August recess, time is running out for lawmakers to reach a ...
... Ebola kills nine out of 10 people with severe bleeding, but there is no vaccine or specific treatment. The small fleet of planes and ships searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet came up empty again today. A cluster of orange objects in the Southern Indian Ocean turned out to ...
... broadcast on January 12, 2014. WILLIAM BRANGHAM: From the outside, it looks like a beautiful old estate, but this is no private residence. Inside, investigators for the German Federal Government are poring through decades old records, searching for the last remaining Nazi war criminals who might have escaped justice. This ...
... humility and conciliation in Dr. King's speeches and writings, my Dad heard the call to action. So that's what his children heard too. For years, I scanned the footage of that day, searching for a glimpse of my father marching along in his clerical collar. It doesn't ...
... has said she believed Zimmerman acted to protect himself after Martin attacked him. National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden will not face the death penalty for anything he's done if he returns to the United States. Attorney General Eric Holder gave that assurance to the Russian justice minister in ...
Black and Hispanic students are more likely to be suspended than white students, according to a report released Tuesday by the Education Department's Office of Civil Rights. Jeffrey Brown discusses the disparities with Christopher Edley Jr. of the University of California, Berkeley and the Fordham Institute's Chester Finn Jr.
Photo by Max Wolfe via Creative Commons When it comes to lowering the high school dropout rate, many school leaders have found that something fairly basic works: the ABCs -- Attendance, Behavior and Class. And after President Obama's call-to-action to raise the legal dropout rate to 18 in this year's State of the Union, communities...
My daily commute takes me south along the Potomac River and past the neoclassical majesty of the Lincoln Memorial, a beautiful drive I try not to take for granted. But I had been living and working in the nation's capital for more than two decades before I retraced the steps I had taken as a...
In other news Wednesday, a gunman killed two U.S. Air Force troops and wounded two others traveling in a bus outside an airport in Frankfurt, Germany. The 21-year-old suspect was arrested as he fled the scene. Meanwhile, security forces fired tear gas at protesters in Yemen, and two people were killed.
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