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WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for a "new college compact," Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday will unveil a $350 billion plan aimed at making college more affordable and reducing the crushing burden of student debt.
At a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, the state with the highest average student debt ...
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Xiaomi, the company that topped China's smartphone market in the last quarter, has begun manufacturing devices in India in another move to localize its brand in the South Asia country. Read More 
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No one was hurt in the attack and the two assailants managed to escape.
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HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - The Holland Museum is embarking on an oral history project designed to capture the stories of Hispanic immigrants to the community in a new exhibit curated by area students.
"Documented: The Stories of Latin@s in Holland" was created by six teens in the Museum Youth Leadership ...
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Shots rang out just after 11:15 p.m. Sunday.
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"Strikes me as strange that most of these Cecil protestors are also supporters of Planned Parenthood."
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The Department of Homeland Security is ramping up a new campaign to try to persuade Central American families not to make the perilous journey to jump the U.S. border, as new statistics suggest that last summer's surge could be happening again.
The effort comes as the administration fights a federal ...
"I just wore it. Didn't even turn around."
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As Vice President Joseph R. Biden spends this week vacationing in South Carolina and mulling whether to get into the presidential race, he's got to be thinking about the humiliating beatings he took in his two previous bids for the top job.
It's a painful memory of campaigns that went ...
But this pig got some special treatment …
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Four years after Republican primary voters showered a video of an openly gay soldier with boos at a presidential debate, Republicans in Ohio applauded when Gov. John Kasich revealed that he had recently attended a same-sex wedding.
Mr. Kasich, who was playing to a home-court crowd at Quicken Loans Arena ...
"I apologize when I'm wrong, but I haven't been wrong. I said nothing wrong."
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Since taking over YC, Altman has not only increased the number of startups in each batch, but he has also ventured into hardware and biotech, started a growth fund (according to SEC filings) and, last week, YC announced a new fellowship program for companies at the concept or prototype phase. Read More 
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"Hey, Donald — Have you attacked Hillary yet? Or are you a shill for the Clintons?" asked Instapundit columnist Glenn Reynolds in a tweet Sunday afternoon after Donald Trump declared in his own Twitter missive that a 10-minute speech by Carly Fiorina could give him a "massive headache."
And so ...
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Around the country, more than 50 people have reported losing their jobs at Catholic institutions since 2010 over their sexual orientation or identity.
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Around the country, more than 50 people have reported losing their jobs at Catholic institutions since 2010 over their sexual orientation or identity.
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Rubicon Global, a company helping businesses save money on trash and recycling, is expanding into the healthcare industry. Rubicon connects businesses with local garbage haulers through an online bidding process and and helps them find opportunities to save money, for example by doing more recycling. Read More 
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A state appellate court has rejected a New Jersey marijuana activist's bid to overturn a drug possession conviction.
Edward Forchion, who calls himself NJ Weedman, had argued that he uses marijuana for medical reasons. He also claimed, among numerous other arguments, that criminalizing the drug violated ...
"Boots-on-the-ground officers across this country are at war."
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The payments industry, facing the risk of increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks and various types of credit card fraud, has begun incorporating various types of biometric technology to enhance security and prevent breaches. As recently reported, MasterCard is launching a facial recognition payment service based on "selfies" taken on a smartphone. Read More 
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was booed as he marched in the annual Dominican Day Parade.
Some revelers said at the parade Sunday in Manhattan that the mayor should apologize for comments he made in June that criticized the Dominican Republic's immigration policies.
Many ...
"I looked at it like it could have been my sons or grandsons."
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"We rejoice in the extraordinary life he was privileged to live."
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"We know that the incidents were horrific and absolutely heartbreaking."
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Sen. Claire McCaskill insisted Sunday that Sen. Chuck Schumer's notable decision to oppose the nuclear deal with Iran hasn't placed pressure on fellow Democrats to follow suit, as Congress readies to weigh in on the pact when it returns to Washington next month.
"I don't think any of [us] feel ...
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When you're a struggling team eating away at your meager savings and trying to get your startup profitable, venture capital funding seems like the holy grail. Raising money from investors gives you the resources to grow your team, buys you time to do things properly and gives you no small amount of credibility in the eyes of other entrepreneurs, prospective hires and even some clients… Read More 
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Sen. Marco Rubio said Sunday that he's fed up with responding to Donald Trump's comments in the GOP presidential nomination race, arguing that he must focus on his own campaign as the flamboyant businessman spits out a new barb every day.
"If I comment on everything he says, my whole ...
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"It's the kind of dark, nasty stuff we might expect to hear at a white power rally, not from the President of the United States."
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"I know from the last 18 months police have been under the microscope."
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"[P]olice and MI5 are involved in a frantic race against time to thwart the assassination plot."
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"It'll be a scene that's going on for a while."
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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - Concern for the future of clean water in Southeast Alaska brought together two seemingly unlikely groups - chefs and activists. Naturally, food was involved.
Salmon Beyond Borders, an organization that defends transboundary salmon rivers from mining effects, joined forces with the Rookery Café last week to ...
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska has issued 1,300 driver's licenses to youths who were brought into the country illegally as children since the state became the last in the nation to let them apply.
The Department of Motor Vehicles says 427 licenses were issued in Douglas County from May 29 ...
There is hardly a day that passes without a new major initiative, announcement or bold proclamation by the Gulf economies of United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to promote tech startups in the region. Be it incubators, investment funds or free zones, you name it and they have it. Read More 
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SEATTLE (AP) - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders spoke to a packed crowd Saturday night at the University of Washington campus about his commitment to criminal justice reform as well as addressing income equality.
Sanders gave his talk to a cheering audience at the university a few hours after he ...