WASHINGTON — Congress is pressing ahead with efforts to update the much-criticized No Child Left Behind education law.
A bipartisan conference committee of about two doz...
Former players filed lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA — The NFL will ask a U.S. appeals court to uphold a potential $1 billion plan to settle thousands of concussion lawsuits filed b...
LAS VEGAS — Defiant Republican governors on Wednesday demanded the Obama administration suspend plans to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees in their states, charging ...
Students fight insensitivities
BOSTON — Amherst College has turned on its mascot. Georgetown University is renaming buildings. Union College has a new motto.
Faced with g...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has dropped out of the 2016 race for president, ending a campaign that failed to gain much support among Republicans sifti...
SALT LAKE CITY — Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received af...
LOS ANGELES — Michael C. Gross, an artist, illustrator, film producer and personal designer who created the “Ghostbusters” logo, has died of cancer at age 70.
Gross die...
Clinton earns mixed review
WASHINGTON — The deadly assaults in Paris could bolster Hillary Rodham Clinton's image as a potential commander in chief, even as the chaos in ...
SALT LAKE CITY — One of the largest Boy Scout councils in the country is laying off employees because donations are down — possibly a side effect of tension with the Mor...
MINNEAPOLIS — Bird flu took a bite out of the turkey supply. Heavy rain washed out the pumpkin crop. Yet Thanksgiving groceries likely won’t cost Americans much more tha...
