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Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Educators

They are explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even mayors. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world.
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Eight ways $100 oil may affect you

Here are eight ways that higher energy prices are starting to affect America.
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Memorial Day: good news on gasoline prices, and it may get better

Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer driving season, will see gasoline prices at their lowest in two years. Concerns about Europe and optimism about Iran have helped cut the cost of crude.
Most well-read cities: Three Virginia cities on Amazon top 20 list

Most well-read cities included Alexandria, Va., which came out ahead of Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., in the Amazon list. The top 5 most-well read cities also included Ann Arbor, Mich., and Boulder, Colorado.
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Is Virginia really the best-read state in the nation?

The state also had more cities on Amazon's list of the top 20 most well-read areas than any other.
Modesto cop killing highlights spike in violence against police

The number of cops killed on the beat had been declining since the 1970s and was bound to end, say experts. But the killing of cops in Modesto, Calif., and Greenland, N.H., Thursday could point to other trends.
Stocks rebound after Tuesday's big slide

The Dow jumped 89 points to close at 12805, a stark turnaround from yesterday's free-fall.
Pink slime bankruptcy: After the backlash, what's next for beef?

Pink slime bankruptcy: A major beef processor has declared bankruptcy, citing the backlash against 'pink slime.' The economic fallout from pink slime is just beginning.
JetBlue pilot's outburst: Could side effects from medications be at fault?

Federal investigators and JetBlue officials poring over Clayton Osbon's medical records are expected to look for clues as to whether medications, or their side effects, might be an issue.
FBI arrests suspect in terror plot near US Capitol

A Moroccan man living in Virginia was arrested Friday in a bomb plot that targeted the US Capitol building.
Creator of Revolution Muslim website, inspiration to US jihadis, pleads guilty

Jesse Curtis Morton, who ran RevolutionMuslim.com, admitted to influencing would-be American militants including 'Jihad Jane' and the Pentagon model-plane bomber.
Drive-by jihadi pleads guilty to shooting at Pentagon

The Virginia resident, who videotaped one of his drive-by attacks on the Pentagon, fired at other buildings and planned to desecrate graves of Iraq and Afghanistan war dead at Arlington National Cemetery.
School lunches get first overhaul in 15 years – but pizza still a vegetable

School lunches will change in accordance with the USDA's new guidelines. Nutrition experts are pleased, though they argue that Congress interfered unnecessarily.
US charges 'Reluctant Spy' author with leaking secrets to journalists

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou, author of 'The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror,' faces up to 30 years in prison for allegedly disclosing classified information to reporters.
Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Educators

They are explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even mayors. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world.
The scold in Mother Nature's cold: It's winter! Wear a coat! (VIDEO)

Temperatures plummeted up and down Eastern US, making it feel, at last, like winter. But this brush with Arctic cold won't last long at all.
Readers Write: Drone attacks, 'Voice of America,' and presidential leadership

Letters to the Editor for the weekly issue of December 12, 2011: One reader asks, how long until America's enemies acquire drone technology and attack the US? Another: Didn't the US abandon Hungarians to a Soviet crackdown after Voice of America broadcasts encouraged rebellion? A third reader explains: Real presidential leaders seek out people who don't agree with them.
Supreme Court declines to clarify gun rights question

The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a potentially important gun rights case, which could have established guideposts for future gun regulations at the local, state, and national levels.
Penn State lesson: what to do if you suspect sexual abuse of a child

Whether or not Mike McQueary told police of the alleged sexual assault of a young boy, the Penn State scandal raises the issue of how to handle such cases. Every US state has its own laws.
White House shooting suspect obsessed with Obama (VIDEO)

White House shooting: Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, arrested for allegedly shooting at a window in the executive mansion at the White House, is believed to have an obsession with President Barack Obama.
Why Topeka, Kan., repealed its ban on domestic violence

The move was part of a successful bid to force the county district attorney to prosecute misdemeanor domestic-violence charges, which he wasn't doing because of budget cuts. For now, the crisis is averted, but the deeper budget problem for cities nationwide endures.
Obama campaign memo: Preview of a highly negative 2012?

The campaign memo, released Monday, said that Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and the rest of the Republican field have ‘embraced policies that the American people oppose.’
Is Obama following in Nixon's footsteps by going after WikiLeaks?

Julian Assange faces a US grand jury investigation for his releases of information through WikiLeaks. Are there parallels between RIchard Nixon's legal action against The New York Times for publishing the Pentagon Papers?
Obama pushes job training initiatives to boost US manufacturing

There's a gap between skills US manufacturers want and skills workers have, Obama said during a visit to a hybrid-car repair lab Wednesday. Can job training at community colleges help close it?
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Why I'm not upset that Seattle is ninth on Amazon's 'best-read' list

The number of books we buy is not the same thing as the number of books we read.
Amazon: the most well-read cities in America are also the most romantic

Amazon released its "Most Well-Read Cities in America" list this week and guess what? It mirrors its "Most Romantic Cities in America" list from 2010.
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