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The Sunni militants had given Jordan until sunset Thursday to release a convicted terrorist. The exchange did not happen.

Education Minister Yuan Guiren says the country's institutions of higher learning should stop using textbooks that criticize China's leaders and political system.

Raif Badawi is being punished for insulting Islam. He was flogged Jan. 9, part of a sentence of 50 lashes a week for 20 weeks, along with a decade in prison. Two previous rounds were also canceled.

American Troy Bradley and Russian Leonid Tiukhtyaev, flying east over the Pacific Ocean, surpassed the previous record of just over 5,200 miles set in 1981 for gas-filled balloons.

The movie, one of five Academy Award nominees for best foreign language film this year, is about radical Islamists occupying the city in Mali. Remarkably, it's often on the verge of being a comedy.

Franklin was a talk-show host for more than 40 years. Guests ranged from Elvis Presley, Woody Allen and Barbra Streisand. He died Jan. 24 at 88 years old. In 1988, Franklin talked with Terry Gross.

Kids can be magical and maddening. The title of Jennifer Senior's book — All Joy and No Fun — contrasts the strains of day-to-day parenting with the transcendent experience of raising a child.

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Ward Connerly of the Nebraska Civil Rights Initiative and David Kramer of Nebraskans United “Should Affirmative Action in Nebraska Be…

OMAHA PRESS CLUB – Nebraska Second Congressional district debate between incumbent, Republican Lee Terry and challenger, Democrat Jim Esch

FILM STREAMS DISCUSSION – Film: Praying with Lior. Panel: Rabbi Aryeh Azriel of Temple Israel; Mary McHale, President of the Omaha Down Syndrome Parents’…