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A military panel in the U.S. state of Washington has sentenced U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs to life in prison for killing Afghan villagers for sport and cutting off their body parts as trophies. The case has raised questions about how the U.S. military handles misconduct. It started ...

After deciding the title last year, Seattle Prep and Eastside Catholic back on track

Cloud computing startups can thank a federal copyright case for the increased funding they’ve raised in the past few years, according to a Harvard Business School professor. A new study authored by investment-banking professor Josh Lerner, and funded by the Computers and Communication ...

This week the Occupy movement drew thousands of California college students to protests on at least 10 campuses, including UC Irvine, UCLA and UC Berkeley, where police forcibly removed students and arrested 39 people. The University of California system faces some of the steepest budget cuts ...

DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I’m Doug Johnson. Today we play music from American Idol winner Scotty McCreery ... And we answer a question about American whiskey ... But first, it is history at the movie theater where a new film opens about former ...

The game-breaking running back turns makes into touchdowns for the Saints, who challenge Franklin Pierce Friday night in the 2A state playoffs.

STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION – American history in VOA Special English. I’m Steve Ember. Today, we tell about the movement for civil rights for black Americans. (SOUND) The day is August twenty-eighth, nineteen sixty-three. More than two hundred fifty thousand people are gathered ...

For a mother who began a meal-delivery service, it's not the cooking organic, locally sourced food that's the struggle, it's logistics of getting the meals to customers throughout New York City. She was home after the birth of her first child in 2008 when Tricia Williams decided to ...

Welcome to the 100 Word Stories podcast at podcasting.isfullofcrap.com. I'm your host, Laurence Simon. This is Weekly Challenge Number Two Hundred and Eighty-Eght, where I post a topic and then challenge you to come up with a 100 word story based on that topic. The topic this week ...

Matt Barkley threw for a school-record six touchdowns and saved another with a tackle after his only interception as No. 21 USC bounced back from its triple-overtime loss to Stanford with a 42-17 victory over Colorado on Friday night.