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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York education officials are poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing skills of people trying to become teachers, in part because an outsized percentage of black and Hispanic candidates were failing it....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korean politicians want to ensure that the country never again sees a leader like Park Geun-hye, who was booted from office over an explosive corruption scandal....
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- On Feb. 19, 2016, at a campaign rally in North Charleston, South Carolina, then-candidate Donald Trump gave a stump speech in which he railed against American jobs moving to Mexico: "We lose our jobs, we close our factories, Mexico gets all of the work," he said. "We get nothing."...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Latest on Dutch barring Turkish foreign minister (all times local):...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sunny days and T-shirt-wearing temperatures made it appear winter had made an early exit. But it's not finished with us yet - at least in the Northeast where a powerful storm with high winds and up to a foot of snow is expected next week....
I swam laps the other day and overheard a conversation between two other lap swimmers.
Washington D.C., Mar 11, 2017 / 04:02 pm (CNA/Europa Press).- Despite being victims of harassment and violence, Egypt’s Coptic Christians have set a standard of forgiveness that everyone should imitate, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.K. has said.Egypt’s Christians have been loyal, peaceful, and forgiving amid a recent spate of violence that has driven hundreds from their homes, Bishop Anba Angaelos, general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the U.K., told CNA in an interview.“I take a huge pride in their witness and in their example,” he said.“And I think that really has given a substantial example for all of us to follow. If they can live with this grace and graciousness in that volatile setting, then in our day-to-day lives and in our day-to-day struggles, we should be able to do the same.”In the last three months around 40 Egyptian Christians have been killed, including in a bombing of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox C...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- The Latest on Dutch barring Turkish foreign minister (all times local):...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- The escalating dispute between Turkey and the Netherlands spilled over into Sunday, with a Turkish minister unable to enter her consulate after the Dutch had already blocked a visit by the foreign minister, prompting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to call the Dutch "Nazi remnants."...
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Manhattan federal prosecutor who says "absolute independence" was his touchstone for over seven years as he battled public corruption announced he was fired Saturday after he refused a day earlier to resign....
