Issues

The Los Angeles Unified School District announced the move to parents after two teachers at Miramonte Elementary School were arrested last week on accusations of sexual abuse.

Two boys killed with their father in an apparent murder-suicide suffered hatchet wounds before a fire in their Washington state home, police say.

President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives resigned Tuesday after members of the nation's police force revolted against his government.

In academia, questions are left unanswered and nothing gets done. That is how it should be.

Some schools are giving students the option of designing their own major.

A court in Norway concluded that the man charged with killing 77 people last year can be kept in custody until his trial.

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro once again dominated his country's airwaves Monday during the televised presentation of an event for his new memoir, "Fidel Castro: Guerrilla of Time."

Students at Miramonte Elementary School will return to class later this week to a new staff because administrators do not want any more "surprises" at the Los Angeles school that is at the center of two child abuse cases.

An attorney for a convicted murderer pardoned by Mississippi's outgoing governor says his client will not attend a hearing on the constitutionality of his and 200 other pardons.

Moments after the energetic Madonna entertained fans during the halftime show at Sunday's Super Bowl, millions of television viewers got an emotional jolt back into reality. Amid the close-up shots of factory workers and Midwest families, were there political undertones in Chrysler's Super Bowl ad?

What rules, if any, do you think should govern how companies collect and use personal and aggregate data?

A three-judge pannel with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is expected to rule Tuesday on whether California's same-sex marriage ban violates the Constitution.

How did The New York Times characterize the 2012 Super Bowl ads?

Can you use context clues to find the best antonym for the word "crystallized"?

On Feb. 7, 1984, the Challenger space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart performed the first untethered spacewalk during the STS-41B mission.

Greek union members are expected to go on a daylong strike Tuesday to protest new austerity measures sought by foreign lenders as the country negotiates to keep its finances afloat.

It's the largest delegate haul yet in the GOP race for the White House. Colorado and Minnesota hold caucuses. Missouri holds a nonbinding primary.

The entire staff of a school where two teachers were arrested last week for lewd acts involving pupils will be replaced, parents said, citing the superintendent.

Eleven people were killed and three were injured Monday after a tractor-trailer slammed into a passenger van northeast of Stratford, Ontario, according to Inspector Steve Porter with the Perth County, Ontario, Provincial Police.

After the deaths of a Washington man and his sons in a presumed murder-suicide, the details in the 2009 disappearance of the children's mother may never be known.