Education bill rewrite would protect gay students
Buried in the proposed rewrite of the nation's massive education law are protections for gay and lesbian students that its supporters liken to the ...
Obama calls for end to mental illness stigma
President Barack Obama said Monday that he wants to end the stigma of mental illness and enrolled the star power of actors Bradley Cooper and Glenn ...
2 bouts of violence kill 12 in South Sudan
Officials in South Sudan say two separate bouts of violence have killed 12 people. Taban Deng Gai, the governor of Unity state, said Monday that ...
NH memorial held for Newtown gunman's mother
More than 100 family and friends gathered at a church in a small New Hampshire town Saturday to remember the woman whose son massacred 20 ...
UN: More than 1,000 Iraqis killed in May violence
The United Nations mission to Iraq said Saturday that more than 1,000 people were killed in violence across the country last month — the highest ...
NYC's Bloomberg: 'I feel perfectly safe'
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been a public face of gun control for years, but he's in a new, unsought spotlight after ricin-laced letters were sent to ...
NYC police: Notes to Obama, mayor had gun threats
A suspicious letter mailed to the White House and intercepted this week was similar to two threatening, poison-laced letters on the gun law debate ...
Myanmar Muslims find shelter in Buddhist monastery
More than 1,000 Muslims who fled Myanmar's latest bout of sectarian violence huddled in a Buddhist monastery guarded by army soldiers as calm returned ...
Student says his tip led to Ore. bomb plot arrest
When 17-year-old Truman Templeton didn't want to go to an assembly at his Oregon high school, his mother knew something was wrong. She asked, and he ...
Buddhist mobs spread fear among Myanmar's Muslims
It was a terrifying sight: hundreds of angry, armed men on motorcycles advancing up a dusty street with no one to stop them. Shouting at the top of ...
England and Ireland tie 1-1 in peaceful match
England and Ireland played to a 1-1 tie Wednesday in a scrappy but peaceful exhibition game in their first matchup since hooliganism forced the ...
Not LOL: Service allows bully reporting by text
Students are getting a new weapon to fight back against bullies: their cell phones. A leading education technology company on Wednesday announced it ...
Italy tries to reduce violence against women
Violence against women in Italy has been thrust into the spotlight with a raft of headline-grabbing murders of women by their lovers — a trend the U.N
US gun debate overlooks daily violence
Florena Carter's shattered life didn't make national news. Her son was killed on his 28th birthday in 2009. Carter's brother pulled the trigger.
Records: Teen wrote detailed plans for school plot
An Oregon teen accused of planning an assault on his high school wrote detailed plans to "shoot and throw bombs throughout the school," then kill ...
Honduras gangs declare truce, ask talks with gov't
Honduras' two biggest and most dangerous street gangs declared an unprecedented truce Tuesday, offering peace in the world's most violent country in ...
Bombings, clashes kill 19 in Iraq wave of violence
Bombings and gunfire in central and northern Iraq killed at least 19 people and wounded dozens on Tuesday, in the latest bloody chapter of a wave of ...
England, Ireland play again _18 years after riot
For the first time since hooligans rioted and forced their match to be abandoned 18 years ago, the England and Ireland soccer teams will take to the ...
Trinidad panel taking fresh look at 1990 uprising
The Muslim cleric who led a small army that stormed Trinidad & Tobago's parliament in a blaze of gunfire is a free man. Never convicted of any ...
Is Newtown ready to laugh? Comedy benefit hopes so
In comedy, timing is everything. Less than six months after a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six educators inside Sandy Hook Elementary School, ...
Ore. teen accused of planning to attack school
An Oregon teenager intended to blow up his school in a plot "forged and inspired by the model of the Columbine shootings" and he will be charged with ...
Girl's suicide after alleged attack troubles town
One evening last Labor Day weekend, 15-year-old Audrie Pott walked up the driveway of a classmate's home alongside other teenagers. She'd told her ...
Egypt: 3 women killed in suspected 'honor' crime
A mother and two daughters were allegedly killed by male relatives in southern Egypt who believed they'd had affairs, the latest apparent example of ...
Sweden's riots raise questions about inequality
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths ...
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