The U.S. Education Department announced Tuesday that it has granted $28.4 million to cover fees for low-income students for advanced placement tests administered in 2015 by the College Board, the International Baccalaureate Organization, and the Cambridge International Examinations. In a
Nineteen-year-old Marcus Kalani Watson was arrested on August 12 and faces federal charges for allegedly robbing a recycling center and three banks in Oahu, Hawaii. An FBI informant in the case says Watson’s total take was $41,000, some of which
CAIRO (AP) — Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary cease-fire for five days, Egyptian and Palestinian officials announced Wednesday, permitting the sides to continue to negotiate a substantive deal to end the war in Gaza. Yet even as
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Six people — including an Associated Press video journalist — were killed Wednesday when leftover ordnance believed to have been dropped in an Israeli airstrike blew up in the Gaza Strip. Simone Camilli and
Tony Stewart could still face criminal charges for running down Kevin Ward Jr. with his sprint car, even if the three-time NASCAR champion didn’t mean to kill Ward, hurt him or even scare him. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero, who
The 2015 African Cup of Nations soccer tournament is in doubt following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is facing a logistical nightmare as various countries refuse to accept teams from affected nations, forcing
According to the Associated Press, the GOP-controlled Florida Legislature has approved new congressional maps that were ordered to be redrawn by Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, who ruled that the “current” congressional districts were “illegally drawn to benefit the GOP.” The not-so-bipartisan
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The PBS series “Antiques Roadshow” says it hit a home run with a collection of 1870s Boston baseball memorabilia. A trove of signatures and rare baseball cards from Boston Red Stockings players was appraised at $1
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s embattled Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in a surprise speech late Sunday, resisted calls for his resignation and accused the country’s new president of violating the constitution, plunging the government into a political crisis at a time
According to the Associated Press, police are saying that the murder of Rabbi Joseph Raksin by two black men in North Miami was probably not a hate crime but a robbery that exploded into murder. Around 9:00 a.m. Saturday, Rabbi
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Ed O’Bannon knows it’s not over, far from it. He’s ready for the appeals, and welcomes a challenge to the ruling that could change big-time college sports forever. After five years of battling the NCAA, O’Bannon
The president and director of the upstate New York dirt track, which was the site where Tony Stewart’s car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. on Saturday night, believes Stewart did not act intentionally. Chuck Miller, the “president and race
From the Los Angeles Times: Tony Stewart will not compete in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International on Sunday after being involved in an incident that claimed the life of a driver during a race in New
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Saturday proposed a broader long-term strategy to confront Islamic militants in Iraq, who have surprised U.S. intelligence with the fast pace of their approach on the Kurdish capital of Irbil. Obama warned Americans
BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of women from the Yazidi religious minority have been taken captive by Sunni militants with “vicious plans,” an Iraqi official said Friday, further underscoring the dire plight of Iraq’s minorities at the hands of the Islamic
A new, unprecedented bill passed by California’s State Senate on Thursday will encourage public schools to teach students about the historical significance surrounding Barack Obama’s status as the first African-American president of the United States of America. Assembly Bill 1921 passed with
Thursday at the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health hearing titled, “Combating the Ebola Threat,” the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Tom Frieden said “We are all connected and inevitably there will be travelers,
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — They were leaders of Cambodia’s infamous Khmer Rouge, the fanatical communist movement behind a 1970s reign of terror that transformed this entire Southeast Asian nation into a ruthless slave state — a place where cities
CLEVELAND (AP) — The Indians plan an extensive renovation of Progressive Field over the next two years, remodeling the 20-year-old downtown ballpark to better connect with their fans. The club intends to make interior and exterior modifications to the area
The near-unprecedented assassination of a United States Major General in Afghanistan yesterday has returned media attention to a war President Obama long deemed over. While Democrats greeted the so-called end of the Afghan War as a welcome change, sources within
The U.S. General killed in the August 5 green-on-blue attack at Camp Qargha, Afghanistan, has been identified as Major General Harold Greene. Breitbart News reported that the attack took place around noon with, at that time, approximately 15 wounded and
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A man dressed in an Afghan army uniform opened fire Tuesday on foreign troops at a military base, killing at least one U.S. soldier and wounding 15 people, among them a German brigadier general and “about
WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for an American who has spent more than four years imprisoned in Cuba said Monday that his client cannot take life in prison much longer and has said his goodbyes to his wife and a
(AP) — A new study shows that less than 5 percent of actors in top Hollywood films are Hispanic, and that Latinas are more likely than women of any other ethnicity to appear partially or totally naked on screen. The
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called upon his country’s armed forces to help Kurdish forces battle a Sunni militant offensive in northern Iraq that has caused tens of thousands of people from the minority Yazidi community
