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The university has kept its tuition the same since 2012, when it launched an initiative to address the rising cost of college and student debt. RWU President Donald J. Farish says he wants to give parents and students predictability about education costs.

Republican congressman Steve King, an influential conservative in the leadoff caucus state, said in a news conference Monday that Cruz would appeal to a wide range of Republicans and praised his efforts to fight President Barack Obama's health care law and defend religious liberty. An outspoken opponent of immigration reform, King also said he liked Cruz's immigration proposals, which include dramatically increasing deportations, adding hundreds of miles to the wall on the Mexican border and reversing... Читать дальше...

Performer Susheel Bibbs poses in front of an image of Mary Ellen Pleasant. Photograph by Olivia Cueva. In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still — white men were the ones cashing out on the boom. Mostly. Then there was Mary Ellen Pleasant. She was one of the richest and most powerful people in the state— and she was a black woman. In fact, she was a freedom fighter. They called her the Black City Hall. But today, Pleasant is barely remembered. Читать дальше...

[...] even if Sunday’s final performance at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center showed signs of cost-cutting in the staging and presentation, there was no scrimping on musical excellence. Holst is most familiar to most audiences as the composer of the exuberantly bombastic orchestral suite “The Planets,” but “Savitri,” scored for just three singers, a dozen instruments and a wordless offstage women’s chorus, is another matter altogether. The music is an affecting blend of conversational rhythms,... Читать дальше...

Yonhap news agency cited an unidentified U.N. source. Yonhap quoted another unidentified U.N. source as saying Ban’s trip could serve as a breakthrough in the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program and strained ties between the two Koreas. Yemeni security officials say Saudi-led air strikes and clashes have killed some 40 Shiite rebels and their allies. Yemen’s fighting pits the rebels, known as Houthis, against forces loyal to the internationally recognized government. Rio de Janeiro... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Pandora says it is acquiring technology and intellectual property from Rdio and will add new features to its Internet music streaming service by late next year. The $75 million cash deal depends on Rdio seeking bankruptcy protection and gaining court approval for the deal. The deal also follows steps the company has taken to repair its frayed relationship with the music industry.

ANTALYA, Turkey — World leaders vowed Monday to boost intelligence-sharing, cut off terrorist funding and strengthen border security in Europe, as they sought to show resolve and unity following the Islamic State’s deadly terror attacks in Paris. President Obama said the militant group was “the face of evil” and urged other nations to do more to combat the threat it poses. [...] he resisted calls to escalate U.S. military action and open a large-scale ground war, saying he would instead intensify the American-led air strike campaign... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Republican leaders of the Arizona Senate are urging state schools chief Diane Douglas and the Arizona Board of Education to end their dispute over board investigators' access to teacher records. Senate President Andy Biggs and two other Republican Senate leaders said in a letter Monday that "student safety may be in jeopardy" while the dispute simmers.

(AP) — The state's highest court has declined to hear the appeal of a former central Pennsylvania teacher convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old student. The former McCaskey High School teacher was sentenced to 14 to 30 years after she was convicted in Lancaster County last year of crimes including sex assault and corruption of a minor.

TUAL, Indonesia — An Indonesian court opened the trials Monday of five Thais and an Indonesian charged with human trafficking connected with slavery in the seafood industry. The suspects were arrested in the remote island village of Benjina in May after the slavery was revealed by an Associated Press report two months earlier. The defendants are being tried separately by a three-judge panel at the District Court in Tual, a municipality about 1,800 miles east of Jakarta.

BRUSSELS — Once a happy-go-lucky student at one of Brussels’ most prestigious high schools, Saint-Pierre d’Uccle, Abdelhamid Abaaoud morphed into Belgium’s most notorious jihadi, a zealot so devoted to the cause of holy war that he recruited his 13-year-old brother to join him in Syria. The child of Moroccan immigrants who grew up in the Belgian capital’s scruffy and multiethnic Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood, the fugitive, in his late 20s, was identified by French authorities on Monday as the... Читать дальше...

LAKE LURE, N.C. (AP) — After parents complained about a newly formed Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Club at Rutherford County K-12 public charter school, the school's board of directors suspended all clubs' activities. Parents, teachers, pastors and concerned citizens voiced a mix of opinions to the club during Lake Lure Classical Academy's regular board of directors meeting Thursday, The Daily Courier of Forest City reports (http://bit.ly/1Oc02x8). According to the new policy, all club... Читать дальше...

ISTANBUL — Intensifying pressure on the Islamic State, U.S. warplanes for the first time attacked hundreds of trucks on Monday that the extremist group has been using to smuggle the crude oil it has been producing in Syria, U.S. officials said. According to an initial assessment, 116 trucks were destroyed in the attack, which took place near Deir al-Zour, an area in eastern Syria that is controlled by the Islamic State. Plans for the strike were developed well before the terrorist attacks in and around Paris on Friday... Читать дальше...

#tbt #whoader lol seems like years ago! A photo posted by TheShadyColemans (@theshadycolemans) on May 29, 2014 at 4:35pm PDT Pregnancy news is always a surprise, but it left a 29-year-old transgender man especially stunned. When Kayden Coleman of Philadelphia went to the doctor for a bloated stomach and aching back in 2013, he never

(AP) — Officials say an Atlanta-area college has been temporarily closed after a woman was found fatally shot in an apartment nearby, and police are looking for her husband. Lawrenceville police Capt. Jeff Smith says police sought the man they suspect of shooting his wife, who was found dead around 9:40 a.m.

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Monday tried to appeal to U.S. voters jittery about terrorism by decrying President Obama’s policies as halfhearted and suggesting that a U.S. ground war against the Islamic State may be inevitable. Returning to the workweek for the first time since the Paris attacks, Republicans took to U.S. television networks demanding a new military strategy. [...] that does not solve the underlying problem of eliminating the dynamics that are producing these kinds of violent extremist groups. Читать дальше...