Each day more than 55 million students attend the country's 130,000 schools.
The Boy Scouts of America voted to allow openly gay youths as members, while continuing its policy of excluding openly gay adult leaders.
The dramatic video emerged after terrified eyewitnesses saw two men shot by police marksmen following a machete attack on a serving soldier in Woolwich, south-east London.
One person has died and two are injured after police responded to a reported knife attack in Woolwich, south-east London.
A woman who survived the devastating tornado in Oklahoma finds her dog buried under rubble during an interview with CBS.
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his...
Weapons litter a blood-stained road in London amid reports a man believed to be a soldier is dead and two people have been shot.
Cleveland’s most camera-ready hero may now also be its best fed.More than a dozen Ohio restaurants and at least one in Pennsylvania have pledged free burgers for life to Charles Ramsey, the Big Mac-munching man who was credited with helping a woman escape from the home where she had been held captive, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.Ramsey mentioned in numerous interviews earlier this month...
Appeals court in San Francisco says law, which would prohibit women from ending pregnancies after 20 weeks, violates Roe v. Wade
Former UN Commander in Bosnia says he is surprised police did not shoot the killers dead, adding: 'I would have done'.

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