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During 13 years under the stewardship of Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, has grown into a powerhouse with an endowment of over $1.7 billion, more than 15,000 on-campus and over 94,000 virtual students and a Division I athleti...

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has softened earlier comments that called for schools to reopen for inperson instruction for all, saying during a visit to a Georgia high school Tuesday that what she really wants to see is 100% learning.

Getting a head start on next year's legislative session, opponents of conversion therapy presented their case Tuesday to shield Kentucky youngsters from a practice that attempts to change a persons sexual orientation or gender identity.

A U.S. judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn jail where she is awaiting trial on charges she aided the late financier Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse of girls.

Senate Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a wideranging plan to tackle climate change that calls for the U.S. government to spend more than $400 billion a year to eliminate U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Hurricane Laura was bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening fierce winds and storm surge from San Luis Pass, Texas to Ocean Springs, Mississippi and prompting thousands to evacuate before an expected Thursday landfall.

A man authorities say participated in a scam to steal victims' banking information by offering phony computer tech support services has pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors say.

A dance studio in Florida. A martial arts center in Missouri. Libraries in San Francisco. These and other places are taking on a somewhat unlikely new role this fall welcoming children for supervised distance learning while their parents go to work.

During the Liberation War in 1971, Dutta became the commander of Sector 4, which covered the whole of the present Sylhet division and some of adjoining areas.

Ant Group, the financial technology arm of Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba Group, on Tuesday filed for a duallisting in Hong Kong and Shanghai, in what may be largest share offering since the coronavirus pandemic began.

Trial data for the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca's possible coronavirus vaccine could be given to regulators this year but corners cannot be cut to speed up approval for emergency use, a scientist leading the trials said on Tuesday.

Australia surpassed 25,000 COVID19 cases on Tuesday, tipped over the milestone by the recent outbreak in Victoria state and prompting a warning from authorities about declining test numbers.

Four prominent Thai antigovernment activists answered a summons at a Bangkok police station on Tuesday, the latest in a series of legal moves by the authorities to clamp down on protests that are the most serious challenge yet to Prime Minister Prayuth Ch...

Three weeks after a catastrophic explosion ripped through Beirut, killing nearly 200 people and rendering thousands homeless, the change many hoped for is nowhere in sight. Instead, activists said they are back to square one.

Twin blasts that killed 15 people in the volatile southern Philippines could both have been suicide bombings, the military said on Tuesday, representing an escalation of violence that the army chief said may require martial law to be reimposed.

The prime speaking slots at Republicans' nominating convention Monday served as a reminder that a single state could loom large in the party's future, even though it's not a presidential battleground.