Washington (CNN) – Eighteen states and the District of Columbia were selected as finalists to receive more than $3 billion in the second round of funding for the Race to the Top Program, Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Tuesday. Duncan, speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, said that peer reviewers selected the states [...]
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Diego Maradona’s contract as coach of the Argentine national soccer team will not be renewed, the spokesman for the Argentine Football Association said Tuesday.
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Protestors plan to swamp Vedanta’s annual meeting to voice complaints about what they see as the Indian miner’s persecution of a nature-worshipping tribe in India
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Billionaire investor in final talks to buy Dubai Holding’s 4 per cent stake in manager of Indian benchmark Sensex index
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Elizabeth Warren received a warm at Netroots Nation on Saturday. Las Vegas (CNN) – The woman many in the progressive community hope will be the first head of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received a heroes welcome Saturday at the Netroots Nation convention. Speaking at a seminar on building a progressive economic vision, Elizabeth [...]
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A dam on an eastern Iowa lake failed Saturday, sending a massive amount of water into nearby communities and forcing residents to flee.
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BP will start deep-water drilling off the coast of Libya within weeks in spite of concerns about the UK group’s environmental and safety record after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster
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Greece will get a second aid tranche of a European Union and International Monetary Fund bail-out as it has met the conditions set in an austerity plan, its finance minister was quoted as saying on Saturday
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