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  • Biden encourages Chinese to challenge their governmentBiden encourages Chinese to challenge their government

    BEIJING - US Vice-President Joe Biden has begun a two-day trip to China by encouraging Chinese students to challenge their government, teachers and religious leaders. Biden visited the U.S. embassy, where he surprised Chinese citizens waiting to get visitor visas processed in the embassy's consular section. He told a group applying for visas to the US that "innovation can only occur where ...

  • Judge allows Obama's uncle to stay in USJudge allows Obama's uncle to stay in US

    BOSTON, Massachusetts - The Kenyan-born uncle of President Barack Obama has been allowed to stay put in the United States more than two decades after he ignored deportation order. Federal immigration Judge Leonard I. Shapiro ruled Tuesday that Onyango "Omar" Obama is allowed to stay in the country he's called home since 1963 and the "land of opportunities". The judge thus spared deportation ...

  • Asian students surpass American peers in science math tests Report

    Asian students have far surpassed their American counterparts in science and math, according to a report. The report by the Program for International Student Assessment showed scores among high school students in many Asian countries are rising as compared to Americans whose performance was poor. According to the Washington Times, the report said that among the 34 [Organization for Economic ...

  • Seattle fans cause minor earthquake with record-breaking cheers in American football game

    A celebration by American football fans in the US city of Seattle grew so loud on Monday evening it registered as a minor earthquake, according to reports. According to the BBC, raucous fans jumped up and down during an early first-quarter touchdown in the game between the Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans Saints. The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network detected the vibrations, measuring between ...

  • Philly teen pleads guilty to Twitter intimidation

    The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/18avbQl) said the 17-year-old Martin Luther King High School student pleaded guilty Wednesday in Family Court to witness intimidation and terroristic ...

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Bound

What is it these days with dynamic brother writer/director teams? First there were the Coen Brothers with their 1984 debut "Blood Simple." Then 21-year old Allen and Albert Hughes stunned the world with 1993's "Menace II Society." And now we have Andy and Larry, a.k.a. The Wachowski Brothers, Chicago-based college dropouts and first time directors with the kind of commanding control of film that m ... ...

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  • White House urges skeptical lawmakers to avoid new Iran sanctions

    Lawmakers on Capitol Hill aired criticism of the Iran interim nuclear deal and encouraged caution in proceeding towards a comprehensive agreement. The White House urged Congress not to impose additional sanctions on Iran. Gwen Ifill ...

  • NC campus on lockdown after nearby shooting

    An Opa-locka elementary school was locked down for about two hours Wednesday after a nearby shooting, amid fears that a gunman had entered the ...

  • Norman Rockwell picture fetches highest price ever for an American painting at auction

    highest price ever paid for an American painting at auction, Sotheby's said. The previous record holder was "Polo Crowd" by George Bellows, which sold for $27.7 million in 1999. Two anonymous bidders, both bidding over the phone, ...

  • Feds demand MTA action after deadly Metro-North derailment

    Photo credit: Bryan Smith Alarmed over a string of accidents on the Metro-North Railroad, including the one on Sunday that killed four passengers, federal officials ordered the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to immediately establish a system that would let employees report potentially dangerous conditions without fear of punishment. In a sternly-worded letter, Joseph C. Szabo, chief of ...

  • Common Ground A cure for health reform

    MORE Cal Thomas is a conservative columnist. Bob Beckel is a liberal Democratic strategist. But as longtime friends, they can often find common ground on issues that lawmakers in Washington cannot.BOB: Republicans in Congress want health care reform to fail. But they won't have HealthCare.gov to kick around as a political tool much longer. The Obamacare website repairs have been ...

  • Get pre-K facts before investing billions Column

    disappointed once again. Sandwiched between the two reports was one reason why America's education system continues to lag. We keep investing in efforts that don't produce results.Senate Democrats introduced a new multibillion dollar early-education bill ...

  • Concussions hurt more than NFL Column

    Emily Oliver . By any reckoning, we were three of the most fearless and hardworking goalkeepers around, and we all had spent time playing for the U.S. Youth National Team. Yet, all three of us have been knocked out of the game by multiple concussions suffered while playing college soccer.A sad coincidence, or a sign the game has to change? The dangers ...

  • White House Memo In Obama’s Book List Glimpses of His Journey

    "I imagine someone in his position gets a lot of facts and figures," Anthony Marra, the author of the book, mused the other day. "But the novel is really about the experience, about the psyche and the ...

  • Streetcar not desired in Cincinnati as council suspends project

    CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cincinnati City Council members voted on Wednesday to suspend construction on a $133 million streetcar project aimed at connecting urban communities so it can assess the feasibility of the ...

  • Briton German identified as Arizona skydiving fatalities

    PHOENIX (Reuters) - Two skydivers who died after colliding in midair and plummeting to the ground in a jump earlier this week in Arizona were a Briton and a German, police said on ...

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