Almost half the students attending public schools are minorities, yet fewer than 1 in 5 of their teachers is nonwhite, according to new studies that cite a “diversity gap” at elementary and secondary schools in the United States.
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A bungled execution in Oklahoma outraged death-penalty opponents, invited court challenges and attracted worldwide attention. But the inmate’s agony alone is highly unlikely to change minds about capital punishment in the nation’s most active death-penalty states
As Afghans observed a day of mourning Sunday for the hundreds of people killed in a horrific landslide, authorities tried to help the 700 families displaced by the torrent of mud that swept through their village.
The twin sisters were reunited last week for the first time since birth in Fullerton, California, thanks to a nudge from their children and help from a psychology professor, the Orange County Register reported Sunday.
President Barack Obama poked fun at himself and what he called a hard year at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “In 2008 my slogan was, ‘Yes we can.’ In 2013, it was control-alt-delete,” Obama joked.
Santa Barbara thought build a $34 million desalination plant two decades ago when California withered in a severe drought. The plant was fired up for only three months and mothballed after a miracle soaking of rain. Now the plant is getting attention again.
A year ago, the stunning story of three women who escaped their captor after nearly a decade unfolded in an Ohio neighborhood. But there are others still missing from those same streets.
As two state troopers struggled to arrest his father, a 19-year-old man armed himself with an assault rifle and shot them seven times, killing them outside his home in a remote Alaska village, authorities said in charges filed Saturday.
A scaffolding collapsed during a circus performance in Rhode Island on Sunday, injuring as many as 20 performers, nine of them critically, the Providence Fire Department said.
The 17-year-old Minnesota boy outlined his plan in a 180-page journal: kill his family, set a fire to divert first responders, then go to his school with bombs and guns and “kill as many students as he could,” according to court documents.