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Should you need to pass a social media check to get a gun?

Should hateful posts keep you from getting a gun?

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Education

Children return to school 3 weeks after California wildfire

Schools had been closed since Nov. 8, when the blaze swept through the town of Paradise and surrounding areas, destroying nearly 14,000 homes and killing at least 85 people.

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The moon rises behind St. Benedict The Moor Catholic church in Pittsburgh Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. Pittsburgh is one of six Roman Catholic Dioceses that was the focus of a sealed grand jury investigation across Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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Courts & Law

Pa. Supreme Court sides with some priests in abuse report, shields names

Eleven Roman Catholic clergy won a decision Monday to keep their names and other information out of a grand jury report

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FILE - In this Oct. 17, 2017, file photo, Frank Gilliam Jr. speaks on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., in front of the former Revel casino. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)

Courts & Law

FBI agents search home of Atlantic City’s first-term mayor

FBI agents are searching the home of Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam Jr.

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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2007, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the 2007 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award gala dinner held in his honor in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bush has died at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Politics & Policy

President George H.W. Bush to lie in state in Washington, D.C.

The former president’s body will arrive in Washington, D.C., today to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

6 years ago

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, construction goes on at the site of a new Amazon building, where space will be provided for a Mary's Place Family Shelter, in downtown Seattle. Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos' plan to fund preschools in poor communities puts him in the company of America's richest people who have dedicated some of their wealth to education, a legacy that has long challenged the role of poverty and capitalism in philanthropy. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

Education

Bezos’ preschools come as rich get richer, more generous

From Jeff Bezos' free preschools to Andrew Carnegie's public libraries, education stands out as a favorite cause among America's wealthiest people.

6 years ago

Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) protest against rising oil prices and living costs on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on December 1, 2018. Thousands of anti-government protesters are expected today on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, a week after a violent demonstration on the famed avenue was marked by burning barricades and rampant vandalism that President Emmanuel Macron compared to

Politics & Policy

Macron tours damaged Arc de Triomphe after Paris hit by riot

Paris police said Sunday that 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital during a demonstration Saturday.

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