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False convictions, ruined lives

Law | False rape accusations may be statistically ‘rare,’ but they happen every day in the United States

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Cambodian casinoville

Cities | Chinese wealth is transforming the formerly sleepy beach town of Sihanoukville, Cambodia, into a tourist and gambling hot spot—and many locals aren’t happy about it

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Turnaround town

Cities | Chattanooga’s reinvention—and those left behind

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Magical thinking

Religion | Americans—including some churchgoers—are showing an increasing interest in New Age beliefs and practices

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Darkness deepens

Venezuela | Pastors and churches brave danger to bring relief to Venezuelans

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Record floods devastate Nebraska

Floodwaters submerged large areas of Nebraska over the weekend, bringing widespread destruction and leading to the deaths of at least two people.

Arkansas adopts more safeguards for unborn babies

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, signed a law Friday protecting unborn babies from abortion starting at 18 weeks of pregnancy.

Purported New York crime boss shot dead

A man federal prosecutors say was a top leader of New York’s notorious Gambino crime family was shot and killed Wednesday on Staten Island.

Ringleader of college admissions scam pleads guilty

The central figure in a widespread college admissions scandal

Cardinal sentenced to six years for child sex abuse

A judge sentenced Australian Catholic Cardinal George Pell on Wednesday to six years in prison for molesting two 13-year-old choir boys in the late

Assisted suicide on the rise

Life | Belgium and Oregon provide case studies for increased access to euthanasia and assisted suicide

Green-lighting teen sex

Sexuality | Colorado sex education bill downplays abstinence but promotes abortion and LGBT experimentation

Florida police officer convicted in shooting

A Florida jury on Thursday convicted a former police officer of manslaughter and attempted murder for shooting a stranded African-American motorist

Silent crossing

Life | Did Congress cross a Rubicon on Feb. 25?

Students sue colleges over admissions scandal

Two college students have sued the University of Southern California (USC), Yale University, and other colleges embroiled in a bribery scandal.

Widespread college admissions scam revealed

Top college coaches, university administrators, Hollywood actresses, and others have been charged in a widespread college admissions bribery case u

Tax credits and school choice: A win-win duo?

Education | Republicans in Washington want to boost school choice, but some conservatives are wary

A ‘finger-in-the-eye’ strike

Education | West Virginia teachers unions may have won a battle against the state legislature, but critics argue it is parents and students who are losing the war

Covington Catholic in the clear

Education | Independent report exonerates students accused of racism

West Virginia teachers strike in protest of school choice

West Virginia teachers launched their second strike in a year on Tuesday to

Denver teacher strike comes to a close

Denver Public Schools and teachers announced an end to the three-day strike with a deal that raises pay by 11 percent, with built-in cost-of-living

The lowdown on lockdowns

Education | Examining active shooter drills a year after Parkland

Denver teachers strike continues

Denver teachers extended their strike into a third day on Wednesday after negotiations with school district leaders ended Tuesday night without a d

Dutch police search for tram shooting suspect

Dutch police on Monday hunted for a suspect after at least three people died in a shooting on a tram in Utrecht, Netherlands.

France faces more yellow vest protests

French President Emmanuel Macron held a meeting with top security officials on Monday after police failed to control violent protests in Paris over

New Zealand police confirm single gunman

New Zealand’s police chief on Monday confirmed that a single attacker staged Friday’s two shootings at mosques that killed 50 people in Christchurc

Ethiopia receives tracking data from deadly crash

Data from the black box of a deadly plane crash a week ago showed “clear similarities” with an earlier Boeing 737 crash in Indonesia, the Ethiopian

New Zealand leader vows to change gun laws after shootings

UPDATE: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the main perpetrator in Friday’s deadly mosque shootings in Christchurch wa

‘One of New Zealand’s darkest days’

International | Welcome to the age of ‘Selfie Jihad,’ Yazidi endurance, and more

North Korea may back out of nuclear talks

North Korea is considering suspending diplomatic talks with the United States and lifting its halt on nuclear tests unless the United States adopts

Israel strikes back at Hamas targets in Gaza

Israeli warplanes on Friday struck Hamas militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip in response to a rocket attack hours earlier on the Israeli ci

Anniversary of an uprising

International | Remembering Tibet’s history under authoritarian Chinese rule