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Ohio Tuitition Freeze is a Casualty of Recession

A tuition freeze at Ohio's two-year community colleges and four-year state universities is dead. It's a casualty of the recession AND a new, slimmer state…

Charter School Supporters Rally At Statehouse

About 3,300 supporters of charter schools rallied at the Ohio Statehouse today. The group wants lawmakers to give charter schools more money. But how much…

Honda cuts way to profitability

Honda of America is a lot like most auto manufacturers these days: times are tough. But the Japanese-owned manufacturer, which employees 13,000 people in…

Education Changes In The Budget

The state budget Governor Kasich signed last week puts more than $19 billion of state funding into Ohio schools. State GOP leaders are calling it a…

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Oct. 1. Several days later, Abbas, 81, underwent an urgent cardiac test, but was soon released. The health scare has increased talk about a possible successor as the Palestinian leader.

Palestinians Wonder: Who Will Be Our Next Leader?

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is 81, a heavy smoker and has a history of health problems. He was elected more than a decade ago, and it's not clear how he would be replaced.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions looks through papers prior to testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday.

'An Appalling And Detestable Lie': 5 Highlights From Sessions' Senate Testimony

The attorney general gave a fiery opening statement and answered senators' questions for 2 1/2 hours. Democrats hammered him on FBI Director James Comey's firing and for being generally evasive.

Emergency personnel help a passenger at the scene of a train wreck, Tuesday, in Philadelphia.

Engineer Applied Emergency Brake Before Fatal Amtrak Derailment

An NTSB board member says the train was traveling at 106 mph while making a turn in a 50-mph zone. Tuesday night's derailment in Philadelphia claimed seven lives; dozens were injured.

"It sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy," John Prine says of his singing voice.

'Talking About Heaven': John Prine Proves That Old Trees Grow Stronger

The venerated songwriter discusses learning to love his voice and how years of scribbled lyrics on yellow legal pads became The Tree of Forgiveness, his first album of new material in over a decade.

The Ayalet HaShahar synagogue in the West Bank settlement of Giv'at Ze'ev was built in the late 1990s. After years of legal battles, Israel's highest court ruled the synagogue, built on privately owned Palestinian land, had to be taken down. A new, temporary synagogue went up overnight, just a block away.

In The West Bank, A Synagogue Comes Down

In a case that lasted years, Israel's highest court ordered removal of a synagogue built on Palestinian land. But the case was complicated by the government's $1.3 million payout to Jewish settlers.

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