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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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Pence promises relief to flooded Midwest

Vice President Mike Pence visited flood-ravaged Nebraska on Tuesday, meeting with volunteers and first responders and pledging quick federal aid.

Pence to visit Nebraska after flooding

Vice President Mike Pence is flying to Nebraska Tuesday to survey the devastation caused by record-breaking floods in several Midwestern states.

6th Circuit rules against Planned Parenthood

Abortion | Ohio case renews a question the Supreme Court refused to address

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.

Ensuring a combat-ready force

Sexuality | A new Pentagon policy addresses concerns about gender dysphoria

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

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.

A Christian college’s courtroom drama

Education | Bryan College sues a nonprofit group over a questionable high-dollar arrangement that fell apart

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

Burials begin for mosque shooting victims

Mourners on Wednesday buried the first two of 50 worshippers who died last week in mass shootings at two mosques in New Zealand.

Mozambique mourns Cyclone Idai victims

Mozambique began three days of mourning on Wednesday after Cyclone Idai killed hundreds of people and left behind massive flooding.

Theresa May seeks Brexit extension

British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday asked European Council President Donald Tusk to delay Britain’s deadline to leave the European Unio

ISIS camp falls in Syria

U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an Islamic State (ISIS) encampment near the village of Baghuz, the last territory controlled

Deadly cyclone slams southern Africa

Rescue efforts continued in Mozambique and two other southern African nations on Tuesday after Cyclone Idai struck the region last week, killing mo

Dutch tram shooting suspect arrested

Dutch police on Monday evening detained the suspect in a tram shooting that killed three people and injured five others in the city of Utrecht, Net

Nigeria’s killing spree

International | Plus misreading the Christchurch attack and other international news and notes

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