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Obama to graduates: 'A new feeling about America'
President Barack Obama declared Wednesday the world has a "new feeling about America" and more respect for its leadership, weaving re-election themes ...
Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts
Teachers and students from every level of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, erecting ...
In Joplin, a senior year to remember after tornado
There were tearful remembrances for lost classmates and jokes about spending their senior year in a converted department store. But most of all for ...
Court won't reduce student's music download fine
A former Boston University student who was ordered to pay $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing 30 songs on the Internet says he will ...
Obama to address Air Force Academy commencement
President Barack Obama plans to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Air Force Academy, his fourth service academy graduation speech in four ...
Day after historic IPO, Facebook's Zuckerberg weds
For Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, it was quite a week — from birthday, to IPO, to I DO. A day after the historic Facebook stock offering, ...
FACEBOOK IPO LIVE: The social network goes public
It's Facebook's big day. The site, which was born in a dorm room eight years ago and has grown into a worldwide network of almost a billion people, ...
Cuban president's daughter gets US visa
Cuban first daughter Mariela Castro has been granted a U.S. visa to attend events in San Francisco and New York, sparking a firestorm of criticism ...
Old Dominion leaving CAA for Conference USA
It only took football three years to become king at Old Dominion. Inspired by a program that has been wildly successful on the field and among ...
Big Ten network cuts academics, citing low ratings
The Big Ten cable network has been an unchallenged success promoting conference sports to a national audience and making money for its members.
FSU president lays out pros/cons of Big 12 move
The president of Florida State University says moving the athletic program from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big 12 has several drawbacks to ...
Yahoo soap opera features new cast of leaders
Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet ...
New 'super' PAC hopes to woo younger voters
President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political committee wants to ...
1 in 3 autistic young adults lack jobs, education
One in 3 young adults with autism have no paid job experience, college or technical schooling nearly seven years after high school graduation, a study ...
Ivy League school janitor graduates with honors
For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a ...
2012 college grads enter improving job market
The class of 2012 is leaving college with something that many graduates since the start of the Great Recession have lacked: jobs. To the relief of ...
Romney urges grads to honor family commitments
Mitt Romney's Mormon faith has shaped his life, but he barely mentioned it as he spoke to graduates at an evangelical university Saturday. And he ...
Women ponder how they became a campaign issue
Wanda Ramey stood on the University of Colorado campus, cane in one hand, "Close The Pay Gap" sign in the other. The rally for equal pay among women ...
Obama, Romney trying to refocus on economy Friday
The presidential candidates tried to put aside politically risky talk of gay rights Friday and return to Americans' top worry, the economy, in two ...
Georgia woman, 24, battles flesh-eating disease
Whether she was hiking in the woods, growing organic vegetables or working on her master's degree in psychology, Aimee Copeland embraced her passions ...
Military class suspended for its view on Islam
A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggesting that the country ...
Yahoo CEO apologizes for bogus college degree
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is sorry for allowing an inaccuracy about his education to appear in his official bio, but not remorseful enough to heed ...
Cities seek more money from tax-exempt colleges
Wary of tax increases, weary of layoffs and determined to avoid bankruptcy, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras had only to gaze up at his city's Ivy ...
Yahoo CEO faces calls for ouster after inaccuracy
Scott Thompson's reign as Yahoo's CEO is in jeopardy after just four months on the job because he allowed an inaccuracy about his academic credentials ...
US revamps student work-visa program after abuses
The State Department announced major changes Friday to one of its premier cultural-exchange programs following an investigation by The Associated ...