WASHINGTON — Speaking to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference Sunday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened to cut funding to the United Nations, who he believes…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to Washington on Sunday to press his case against an emerging deal on Iran’s nuclear program in a contentious address to the U.S. Congress,…
So, that happened. This week, the Republican-led House Agriculture Committee began what they termed a “top to bottom” review of the federal food stamp program. In a surprising twist, the…
WASHINGTON — Gene Alday, a Republican member of the Mississippi state legislature, apologized last week for telling a reporter that all the African-Americans in his hometown of Walls, Mississippi, are…
Brenda Castro, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, has two U.S.-born children, lives in New Orleans and has been in the country since 2008. Though she has a misdemeanor for attempted…
BERLIN — German lawmakers voted on Friday overwhelmingly to extend the terms of Greece’s bailout by four more months, despite growing misgivings over Athens’s willingness to make economic overhauls viewed…
As state legislatures convene across the country, proposals keep cropping up to drug test applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or welfare. Read the whole story…
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More than one-third of kids in America are obese or overweight. In 2013, the National School Lunch Program, a federally assisted meal program operating in public and nonprofit private schools,…
Jason Jones is signing off. The longtime ‘Daily Show’ correspondent announced on Tuesday that he is leaving to star in a TBS comedy. He has been with the Comedy Central…
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — For Tomás Péndola, an immigrant from Argentina, it was a normal week teaching chemistry in a public high school here, filling a whiteboard with dense equations…
Classrooms are empty in Sierra Leone, but education hasn’t ground to a halt. School has yet to resume after last year’s summer break in the West African country due to…
BRUSSELS — Eurozone finance ministers are meeting here on Friday for the latest round of emergency talks aimed at breaking the deadlock with Greece, a day after Germany rejected a…
ATHENS — Greek officials are planning to submit a proposal to eurozone finance ministers for breaking the impasse in debt negotiations between the new government in Athens and Greece’s European…
Students at Auburn University may be turning their home-building expertise into real-world housing market solutions. Since 1993, the university’s Rural Studio Design Workshop has allowed students to ditch the comforts…
Schools in Oakland, California, may have found the key to closing the achievement gap between African-American males and other groups of students, according to a recent report. In 2010, Oakland…
Birth place: Nashville, Tennessee Birth name: William Harrison Frist Father: Thomas Frist Sr., a physician Mother: Dorothy (Cate) Frist Marriage: Karyn (McLaughlin) Frist (March 14, 1981-December 2012, divorced) – July…
I’m back from a snowy week in Luxembourg thanks to the US Embassy and a program that they have to train young entrepreneurs. I spent the week training young people…
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www.wsj.com: House Republicans are laying the groundwork for a revision of the food-stamps program after its sharp expansion during the recession.
MOSCOW — The International Monetary Fund agreed on Thursday to throw a new $17.5 billion lifeline to Ukraine, hoping to stabilize the country as it teeters on the edge of…
A prison program is providing inmates with a business education that will help them get a fresh start. Some inmates at the Cleveland Correctional Facility in Texas participate in MBA-level…
“Literally, you can’t lose,” said Kilmer. “The worst that happens is you save a bunch of money, and the best thing is you win a cash prize.” Most of the…
Last week, Rosie O’Donnell announced she would be leaving ABC’s “The View” after just five months with the show. The decision marked her second departure from the program, having quit…
On the other hand, astronaut Chris Hadfield is skeptical: “Humanity is not going extinct,” he told me. He added: “There’s no great compelling reason to go, apart from curiosity, and…
ATHENS — Hoping to defuse a standoff that has set Europe and financial markets on edge, Greek officials intend to propose a detailed compromise plan at an emergency meeting with…
MUNICH — Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, was assailed by hard-liners in Tehran last month for talking a widely photographed walk in Geneva with Secretary of State John Kerry…