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Tragic! Middle school dorm fire kills 12

A fire at a middle school dormitory for girls in southern Turkey left 12 people dead and 22 injured Tuesday night, a Turkish governor and state-run media said. Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtas said one teacher and 11 students were killed in the fire in the town of Aladag and the… Read More

Horror! Brazil soccer team killed in plane crash

A chartered plane carrying a Brazilian soccer team to the biggest match of its history crashed into a Colombian hillside and broke into pieces, killing 76 people and leaving just five survivors, Colombian officials said Tuesday. The British Aerospace 146 short-haul plane, operated by a charter airline with roots in… Read More

U.S. students falling behind internationally

In a globally competitive world, American students have strides to make when it comes to math and science, where they lag behind a solid block of East Asian countries as well as Russia and Kazakhstan. Eighth graders in the United States improved their scores in math over the last four… Read More

Castro funeral procession to retrace history

After his band of bearded rebels won power in 1959, Fidel Castro embarked on a victory tour delivering speeches to cheering crowds stretching from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago to Havana. Starting Wednesday, his ashes will retrace that journey in a solemn procession to his final resting spot. The… Read More

Lawmaker SLAMS Obama for Castro sympathy. “Pathetic!”

President Barack Obama’s weak foreign policy has long been the subject of fierce scorn from conservatives — and his sympathetic statement on the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro was a step too far for Senator Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American whose parents fled Castro’s murderous regime. Rubio called Obama’s sympathetic… Read More

Millions of angry protesters swarm streets of U.S. ally (pics)

Millions of protesters are swarming the streets of South Korea following the revelation of a secret, shadowy cult figure named Choi Soon-sil secretly controlling the South Korean president for years, manipulating public policy behind the scenes for her own personal gain, reports say. Now South Koreans are demanding the resignation of… Read More

Trump names his U.N. ambassador

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen the new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and it’s going to leave liberals furious. Unfortunately for liberals, the accusations of sexism and racism become hard to swallow when Trump nominates a woman of color to a top position. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has… Read More

Dalai Lama: I have ‘no worries’ about Trump

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Wednesday he has “no worries” about Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, adding that he expects the businessman will align his future policies with global realities. The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner’s remarks were his most extensive yet regarding the election of… Read More

Quake and tsunami strike Japan

At first, it was 2011 all over again. “It really came back. And it was so awful. The sways to the side were huge,” Kazuhiro Onuki said after northeastern Japan was jolted Tuesday by a magnitude-7.4 earthquake, the strongest since a devastating quake and tsunami five years ago. “But nothing… Read More