You'll Never Guess Which Region Suspends Black Kids From School Most Often
The assessment, made by the Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, found that African American students were consistently suspended and expelled at higher rates than their peers in each of the 3,000 school districts in…
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Wife Has All The Company She Needs In Her Electronic Devices
DEAR ABBY: My wife and I have been married 22 years, and we had a good marriage until recently. Over the last three years she has become more and more consumed with her phone and tablet. She goes nowhere and does nothing without them. Every night and weekend she sits engrossed in both devices until…
Major cancer breakthrough: Doctors solve long-standing mystery of how to stop cancer from growing
Cancer is a terrifying disease that researchers around the globe are obsessively working to cure. Now scientists from the USA have made a breakthrough discovery related to how cells replicate in cancer patients, how to put a stop to the process, and even how to reverse a tumor. DON’T MISS: iPhone…
Two dead in southwestern Louisiana shooting, stabbing (17 photos)
A police officer was shot and killed Wednesday when he responded to a call from a house where three women had been stabbed, one of them fatally, in a town about 60 miles west of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the sheriff of rural St. Landry Parish. The man accused in the attacks drove from the house…
Dust-covered woman from iconic 9/11 photograph dies of cancer
A survivor of the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York who was featured in one of the most haunting photographs of the outrage has died of stomach cancer. The family of Marcy Borders first announced her death Monday on Facebook. Borders, who was 28 at the time of the attacks, was just one month…
How Engineering is Changing the Mattress Industry
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Pennsylvania court unseals pornographic emails sent by officials
Pennsylvania's highest court on Wednesday unsealed a trove of pornographic emails exchanged by state officials years ago that Attorney General Kathleen Kane said her political enemies wanted to suppress and her foes said she was using to intimidate them. The emails, consisting of crude jokes and…
Coroner: Man dies of injuries from crash 50 years ago
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Authorities say a man died this week of injuries he sustained when he was hit by a vehicle in eastern Pennsylvania a half-century ago.
US 'to deploy heavy weapons to Poland in 2016'
Poland's defence minister said Thursday the United States would deploy heavy weapons to the EU state next year, as regional tensions run high over Russia and the conflict in Ukraine. Washington had said in June it would store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as…
Trump says he's proud he booted Univision's Ramos from event
PENSACOLA, Florida (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Wednesday he's proud of kicking one of the country's best-known Spanish-language journalists out of an Iowa news conference — the latest in a series of clashes with the media.
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Virginia journalists killed on-air 'much more than what you saw on TV'
"I cannot tell you how much they were loved," WDBJ General Manager Jeff Marks said about Parker and Ward during a somber broadcast. "These two were more than what you saw here on TV, they were much, much more," anchor woman Kimberly McBroom said. Parker and Ward were Virginia natives.
NASA: Rising Sea Levels More Dangerous Than Thought
The consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models, which don't fully account for the fast breakup of ice sheets and glaciers, NASA scientists said today (Aug. 26) at a press briefing. The open question, NASA…
N. Korea negotiator hails 'turning-point' for ties with South
One of the two North Korean negotiators involved in recent crisis talks with South Korea spoke Thursday of a "dramatic turning-point" for relations between the two countries. In an upbeat and conciliatory assessment of the agreement struck at the talks, Kim Yang-Gon, a senior party official…
Virginia TV journalists killed by suspect with 'powder keg' of anger
By Gary Robertson MONETA, Va. (Reuters) - Two television journalists were shot to death during a live broadcast in Virginia on Wednesday, slain by a former employee of the TV station and who called himself a "powder keg" of anger over what he saw as racial discrimination at work and elsewhere in…
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Thai elephant kills keeper, runs off with 3 Chinese on its back
An elephant in northern Thailand went berserk Wednesday, killing his "mahout" keeper before running off into the jungle with three terrified Chinese tourists still on his back, police said. "The mahout who was killed was Karen and he was not familiar with the elephant. The Karen are an ethnic…
Thousands of Popcorn Time users targeted by anti-piracy group
With an intuitive and easy to use interface, Popcorn Time has become the go-to service for users who, let’s be honest, want to pirate TV shows and movies. Underscoring how much easier the service is to use than traditional BitTorrent clients, the ascension of Popcorn Time has resulted in an…
Mother of conjoined twins to give birth in Colorado
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A woman preparing to give birth to conjoined twins in Colorado has been told one of the babies won't survive.
Child in critical condition after dog attack in Fayetteville
The American Pit Bull Terrier was put down after the incident
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Trump dumps insults on questioners, insists on control
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Donald Trump, the joy of the insult seems as compelling as the art of the deal.
U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Taliban grab district
By Mohammad Stanekzai LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters seized a district headquarters in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Monday despite repeated U.S. air strikes to repel them, adding to the insurgents' recent advances in a heavily fought over region of opium farms and trade…
When Italy's Migrants Move In
Thousands of seaborne asylum-seekers and refugees have washed up on Italy's shores. Their reception? Not what you'd expect.
