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Assistant Editorial Features Editor Kate Bachelder on the the government failure in Michigan. Photo credit: Jake May/The Flint Journal.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Police Department is using Drake to help fight potential parking spot battles during the pending weekend snowstorm.

All evidence from rigorous studies is good evidence, as long as it addresses actionable policies or practices that could make a difference for student outcomes. However, there is a big distinction between two kinds of good evidence that I think it is useful to make.

One kind of good evidence relates to proven programs. These are approaches to teaching various subjects, increasing graduation rates, improving social-emotional or behavioral outcomes, remediating or preventing learning deficits, and so on. Читать дальше...

A spate of murders last June helped push the annual rate of murders and killings in England and Wales to their highest level in five years, official figures show.

Hundreds of people showed up in India’s capital for an hourslong debate over whether Facebook and others are undermining freedom of the Internet by offering free services that give people limited access to the web.

No two t-shirts are the same, and Threadbase has the data to prove it.

With the spotlight so narrowly on Litvinenko and his death, there was no room for any real consideration, or even curiosity - at least none that reached the public domain - about how the polonium arrived in the UK

Currently on tour with Bruce Springsteen, Mr. Weinberg plans to do a soup-to-nuts renovation of the fieldstone home.

The Schalke coach has admitted he would wonder about the possibility of joining one of the biggest clubs in the world if he was in the in-demand starlet's position

By Ira Miller, The Sports Xchange
It has been the pre-eminent rivalry in the NFL for more than a decade now, and Sunday's renewal in the AFC Championship game could be the final act.

Touro Institute Professor Anne Bayefsky on the Iran prisoner exchange. Photo credit: Getty Images.

The BBC has announced plans to sprinkle Shakespeare throughout in schedules in commemoration of his 400th anniversay of his death

The project is "not a celebratory endeavor" but an "effort to change our campus climate," the school said on its website.

NEW YORK (AP) — All Ennio Morricone asked of Quentin Tarantino, after committing to score his new Western, "The Hateful Eight," was that the director feature his music prominently and give it …

NEW YORK - All Ennio Morricone asked of Quentin Tarantino, after committing to score his new Western, "The Hateful Eight," was that the director feature his music prominently and give it the space needed to convey its message.

A local woman’s jewelry designs have grabbed the attention of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton.

Markets have been bouncing up right at 2:30 p.m., marking a notable reversal from the big declines of the day.

WAUZEKA, Wis. (AP) — A small, tight-knit community in southwestern Wisconsin is mourning the deaths of two sisters in a house fire.

Minister van Justitie en Veiligheid Ard van der Steur staat er niet zo goed meer op bij de kiezer. De waardering voor de VVD-bewindsman kelderde van een 5,2 in november naar een 4,2 nu, blijkt uit de Politieke Barometer van onderzoeksbureau Ipsos.

A hulking brute in matching wrestling tights and boots marches forward across a crowded street. He patiently judges the space in front of him using a few feints to find an opening. An outstretched hand grabs hold of his opponent and the entangled pair spin into the air with gravity bringing a devastating end to his opponent.

Military job titles are going to be changed to be less sexist—but only some of them. And that says something about how language handles gender.

“Simpsons” executive producer Al Jean, producer Mike Reiss, animator and consulting producer David Silverman, writer Reid Harrison, and “X-Files” creator Chris Carter look back at “The Springfield Files.”