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Calling the achievement gap facing minority students in schools “the civil rights issue of our time,” former Los Angeles mayor and potential gubernatorial candidate Antonio Villaraigosa endorsed sweeping changes to California schools at a Capitol rally Thursday.

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Sheldon Silver's attorney grilled Dr. Robert Taub about investigators' 6 a.m. visit to his home last year that led to his testimony.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Protests were held in Taiwan after President Ma Ying-jeou announced a historic summit for Nov. 7 with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

You may have more in common with the titans of the financial industry than you think.

There could be further delay in the implementation of a Supreme Court order directing authorities to levy an environment tax on trucks entering Delhi. The private concessionaire appointed by the South Corporation has not taken any decision even after the Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA) resolved the procedural and legal issues raised by it.

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Coming after the drubbing Democrats received in last year’s midterms, Tuesday was another bad Election Day for the Party. In Kentucky’s gubernatorial race, Matt Bevin, a Tea Party Republican who made rolling back the state’s participation in the Affordable Care Act a central part of his platform, defied the opinion polls to win handily, bringing the number of G.O.P. governors across the country to thirty-two. In Virginia, a well-funded Democratic bid to take control of the State Senate failed. Читать дальше...

Katy Perry is the new most expensive queen of music. The 31-year-old pop star is No. 1 on Forbes' new list of the world's highest-paid women in music in 2015 with estimated...

A North Texas man came forward nine months after he said five volunteer firefighters sexually assaulted him with a sausage.

'The pace of disruptive technological innovation has gone from linear to parabolic,' says Bank of America

'The pace of disruptive technological innovation has gone from linear to parabolic,' says Bank of America

Julian Hernandez, now 18, disappeared from his Alabama home at the age of five and spent 13 years living under an alias

Facebook revealed content owners will pocket a cut of video views. How tech companies including Apple are trying to become content providers.

BBC America has finally announced the plot line for the one-night, 165-minute event. It begins with Detective Chief Inspector John Luther — last seen tossing his trademark jacket into the Thames and walking away with killer/confidante Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson) — on a leave of absence. He’s “laying low in a rundown cottage” when he receives visitors, new faces DCI Theo Bloom (Darren Boyd) and DS Emma Lane (Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie), who come with "a shocking piece of news that draws him back to London in search of the truth.” Meanwhile... Читать дальше...

The Democratic Alliance says it is satisfied with Thursday’s proceedings in the Constitutional Court during which the party made oral representations seeking confirmation of the Western Cape High Court’s ruling that section 11 of the Powers‚ Privileges and Immunities of Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures Act be declared unconstitutional.

USC receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster is not the only Trojans starter who could be sidelined against Arizona on Saturday night because of injury.

Gen. Czeslaw Kiszczak, a Polish general and communist-era leader who played a key role in imposing martial law in 1981 but eight years later also took part in talks that allowed for a peaceful transition to democracy, died on Thursday in Warsaw. He was 90.

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the made-for-TV news conference was done, after new Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's name-checks of Bill Walsh, Bill Russell, Nelson Mandela, Stevie Wonder an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the made-for-TV news conference was done, after new Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's name-checks of Bill Walsh, Bill Russell, Nelson Mandela, Stevie Wonder an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the made-for-TV news conference was done, after new Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's name-checks of Bill Walsh, Bill Russell, Nelson Mandela, Stevie Wonder an…

WASHINGTON (AP) — After the made-for-TV news conference was done, after new Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's name-checks of Bill Walsh, Bill Russell, Nelson Mandela, Stevie Wonder an…

Breakthrough adds to excitement over genetic engineering therapies

Fans of Alessia Cara's breakout single "Here," which has reached No. 15 on the Billboard Hot 100, may ­recognize the deep voice that flits through...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- Federal lawmakers hope to repeal a provision in the recently passed U.S. budget that allows the government to collect its debts using robocalls.