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Google announces $23 million in grants for helping girls, minority students
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Google is announcing $23 million in grants to spur innovation among charities and increase education for girls and minority students in science and technology.
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AFT proposes 'bar exam' for new teachers
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The American Federation of Teachers called for a tough new written test to be complimented by stricter entrance requirements for teacher training programs, such as a minimum grade point average.
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Romney to rejoin Marriott International's board of directors
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Mitt Romney has held the post with the hotel chain twice before. This is the first job announcement Romney has made since he lost the November election to President Barack Obama.
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Schools nation-wide to add time to school year
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Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer.
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Alzheimer's treatments hopeful with new study
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For Alzheimer's patients and their families, desperate for an effective treatment for the epidemic disease, there's hope from new studies starting up and insights from recent ones that didn't quite pan out.
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First text message sent 20 years ago
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Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the first text message being sent to a mobile phone.
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Ford recalls 2013 Escape SUVs, Fusion sedans
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Ford is recalling more than 89,000 new Escape SUVs and Fusion sedans because the engines can overheat and catch fire.
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Missouri family celebrates winning Powerball jackpot
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Mark Hill and his wife Cindy were the lucky Powerball jackpot winners in Missouri. They'll have to split it with an unidentified winner in Arizona, but theyll still get a lump sum of $136 million after taxes.
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New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker to live off food stamps for a week
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Mayor Cory Booker said he will live on food stamps for a week starting Tuesday.
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Texas train crash: Veterans sue railroad company
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The lawsuit was filed by Richard Sanchez and Todd King and their wives, but one of their attorneys said he expects other veterans to join it.
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Amanda Knox's 'Waiting to be Heard' to be released in April
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Fire suppression systems urged in all cargo planes
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Lithium batteries are suspected to have caused or contributed to the severity of the fire in the crashes of a UPS jumbo freight airplane in Dubai in 2010 and an Asiana Cargo plane off the coast of South Korea in 2011.
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Elizabeth Derkosh, mother of boy killed at zoo, won't be charged
Elizabeth Derkosh put her son on top of a railing to view a pack of African painted dogs in early November. The boy fell off and the animals immediately pounced. He bled to death.
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Alan Gross, American imprisoned in Cuba, does not have cancer, despite previous report
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The Cuban government says a test shows an American imprisoned in Cuba doesn't have cancer, countering a previous statement by a US doctor that a mass on his shoulder should be assumed cancerous unless proven harmless.
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Ohio man sentenced to jail for bullying young disabled girl
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A northeast Ohio man accused of making fun of a young girl with cerebral palsy has been sentenced to a month in jail.
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'Fiscal cliff' hashtag released by White House
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President Barack Obama is introducing a new hashtag to the fiscal cliff debate.
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Kevin Clash, Elmo puppeteer, faces new sex allegation
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After resigning from Sesame Street after 28 years, Kevin Clash faces a third underage sex allegation.
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Tainted peanut butter plant under watchful eye of FDA
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The Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on a New Mexico peanut butter plant that had repeated food safety violations over several years, using new authority to halt operations at facilities that may be producing unsafe food.
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