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The cover features an image apparently of Islam's prophet shedding a tear and holding a sign that reads: "Je Suis Charlie." It comes less than a week after a deadly attack on the magazine.

The Common Core had a rough year. The learning standards were repealed in three states, including Oklahoma. But what happens the day after a state repeals its academic standards?

The proposal failed to get the necessary nine votes to pass. The Palestinian plan called for, among other things, an end to the Israeli occupation by late 2017.

More than 8 million U.S. children don't get enough to eat. In Sacramento, Calif., one school is helping families cope by sending students home for the weekend with backpacks full of groceries.

CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY LECTURE – Tsuneo Akaha, Professor of International Policy Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Monterey…

UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA LECTURE: RICHARD DEAN WINCHELL HISTORY LECTURE – Peter Coclanis, Albert R. Newsome Distinguished History Professor at the…

The Kootenai County sheriff's office says the 2-year-old boy, who was seated in a shopping cart, reached into his mother's handbag, found the loaded gun and shot her. She died at the scene.

Author Roxane Gay spent 2014 thinking and writing about issues that exposed divides in America over race and gender. She offers her thoughts on some of the year's most-talked-about stories.

Across the country and the world, people will ring in the New Year with rituals. Steve Inskeep reports on a few — including taking a plunge in to the freezing Irish Sea on New Year's Day.

Six generations of the Grucci family have been figuring out how to elicit oohs and ahs with their New Year's Eve fireworks displays.