Maryland’s biggest school district has stripped references to religious holidays from next year’s calendar, removing Christmas, Easter, Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah from the lineup of days off.
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Authorities say bomb threats made against several northern New Jersey schools may be related. Five schools in Massachusetts also received near-simulataneous bomb threats on Wednesday, the most logged by state police this year.
A group of Turkish ultra-nationalists attacked three U.S. sailors in Istanbul on Wednesday, shouting “Yankee go home” and trying to pull hoods over their heads in an assault condemned by the United States.
The trial to determine the punishment for Jodi Arias resumed Wednesday with testimony from an expert witness and arguments over allegations that authorities destroyed evidence that may have benefited the convicted murderer’s case.
A second hole has formed in a Tampa Bay-area neighborhood where a hole developed in a driveway and swallowed a car.
A magnitude 4.8 earthquake hit southern Kansas on Wednesday, with reports of it being felt as far south as Oklahoma City, about 125 miles away.
The United States and China are pledging to move faster to reduce or limit emissions of heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.
The surviving pilot of the Virgin Galactic spaceship that tore apart over the Mojave Desert did not know his co-pilot had prematurely unlocked the braking system and within seconds was thrown clear of the disintegrating craft, federal investigators said Wednesday.
A small plane reporting mechanical trouble made an emergency landing on a highway in south-central Arizona, but none of the three people aboard were injured.
Two window washers were trapped for more than an hour Wednesday on scaffolding dangling 69 stories up the side of 1 World Trade Center before firefighters were able to cut through the new skyscraper’s glass and pull them to safety.