CHICAGO -- Months of argument and anguish over Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's push for sweeping school closures came to a climax Wednesday as his hand-picked Board of Education voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer thousands of children ...
MIAMI--Gay activists gathered Wednesday in front of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio's Doral office to protest the Senate Judiciary Committee's failure to include undocumented gay foreign nationals in a bipartisan immigration reform bill the panel approved ...
AKRON, Ohio -- The Akron school board has fired Melissa Cairns, a former math teacher at Buchtel Community Learning Center who had posted photos of her students' duct-taped mouths on her Facebook page in October.
Cairns, 33, had taught in Akron ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Sharks forward TJ Galiardi said Wednesday that Los Angeles Kings goalie Jonathan Quick is guilty of "a little embellishment every now and then" in this Western Conference semifinal series as he tries to draw penalties on San ...
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration confirmed for the first time on Wednesday that four Americans have died in U.S. drone strikes since 2009, but it sought to justify the killing of only one -- a senior leader of al-Qaida's Yemen-based ...
CHICAGO--Lawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First ...