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Immigrant students seek place in mainstream high schools
PHILADELPHIA - A U.S. appeals court must decide if older immigrant and refugee students steered to an alternative high school in Pennsylvania are getting a meaningful education or are simply being pas...
Dec 05, 2016
Rolling Stone challenges verdict in UVa defamation case
RICHMOND, Va. - Rolling Stone magazine urged a federal judge on Monday to overturn the verdict of a jury, which found that the publication and a reporter defamed a University of Virginia administrator...
Dec 05, 2016
The Latest: Officials release names of 10 more fire victims
OAKLAND, Calif. - The Latest on a deadly fire in an Oakland warehouse (all times local): ___ 10:30 p.m. More victims from the deadly fire have been identified. The Alameda County Coroner’s Burea...
Dec 05, 2016
Key figure in Chinese-US college testing scam to be deported
PITTSBURGH - A former University of Pittsburgh student who pleaded guilty to being the go-between for Chinese students who paid to have impostors take college entrance exams received a probationary te...
Dec 05, 2016
Bid to move trial of Alabama officer in black man's death
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A lawyer for a white Alabama police officer charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a black man has asked a judge to move the upcoming trial, saying the community is filled wit...
Dec 05, 2016
Man accused of threatening Muslim officer faces hate charge
NEW YORK - A man who authorities said shouted “go back to your country” at a Muslim woman wearing a religious head covering may have picked the wrong target: a decorated New York City poli...
Dec 05, 2016
Defendant in recovery doesn't halt 9-11 case at Guantanamo
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - A U.S. military judge turned down a request Monday to halt the latest round of Sept. 11 war crimes proceedings at Guantanamo Bay while one of five defendants recovers...
Dec 05, 2016
Obama legacy: Handing Trump a broad view of war powers
WASHINGTON - After eight years as a wartime president, Barack Obama is handing his successor an expansive interpretation of the commander in chief’s authority to wage war around the globe. And t...
Dec 05, 2016
Chile court OK's extradition in 1976 car bombing in US
SANTIAGO, Chile - Chile’s Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government can file an extradition request to the United States for two former secret police agents wanted for a 1976 car bombing in...
Dec 05, 2016
Police: Man kills ex-girlfriend in Utah, dies after chase
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man died following a police chase and shooting after he shot and killed an ex-girlfriend who had a restraining order against him, authorities said. It was unclear if he was kil...
Dec 05, 2016