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Earlier this month, I visited the University of Minnesota to hear from students about the impact of student debt.

In the past few weeks, we've seen a British soldier hacked to death with a meat cleaver on the streets of London and bombers blowing up spectators at the Boston Marathon.

Editor's note: Will Bunch is the author of " October 1, 2011: The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge ," Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future ," as well as "The Backlash: Right-Wing Radicals, High-Def Hucksters and Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama." He is senior writer for the Philadelphia Daily ... (more)

How many ignored warnings does it take? That is one question that should hang over Britain after the horror of the daytime murder of a British soldier on the streets of south London.

A Utah Army veteran charged with killing a police officer and wounding five others in a shootout during a marijuana raid was found hanging dead in his cell early Friday.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry harshly criticized Iranian authorities on Friday for eliminating hundreds of presidential candidates, suggesting that Tehran is standing in the way of legitimate, representative democracy.

One of the best stories after the tornado in Oklahoma was of the teacher who said she started praying out loud to her students, even though she knew she wasn't supposed to.

Protesters hold a banner during a rally against Osaka city mayor Toru Hashimoro in Osaka, western Japan, Friday, May 24, 2013.

A 15-year-old boy is in custody after authorities investigating the stabbing deaths of his younger adopted brothers found him miles away with traces of blood on him, officials said.

State revenue is up. The California budget deficit appears to be gone. Sacramento is debating what to do with the expected surplus.

SHOPPERS have identified Wharf Green and Canal Walk as their preferred locations for a new town centre market - but traders are keen to have it reinstated in Havelock Square.

There's a lot of talk around the country these days about rights and freedoms. The Second Amendment right to bear arms and the First Amendment right to speak freely have been of primary focus as the debate rages over gun control in the wake of December's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

This was not a Muslim atrocity. It was a terrorist atrocity committed by men with twisted ideas.

Editor's note: Tom Coburn, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Oklahoma and the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for years in a Cleveland house will get free McDonald's for the next year, a company spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday.

An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.

Debris litters what remains of a classroom at Plaza Towers Elementary School on Wednesday, May 22, after it was destroyed by a tornado that ripped through the area two days earlier in Moore, Oklahoma.

Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Judge A. Raymond Randolph says: "Although the parties have not raised it, one issue needs to be resolved before we turn to the merits of the case." The issue he raised but could not resolve - that is up to the ... (more)

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