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Sandra Stotsky Review: New Book Tells Some of the Story of How Common Core Infiltrated Education, Took Over, and Lowered Standards

Bill Gates somehow managed to get the U.S. Department of Education not only to buy into Common Core but also foist it on local school districts all over the land — in less than five years. Joyce Pullman's book The Education Invasion:  How Common Core Fights Parents for

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Left-Wing Activists Guiding Florida Kids’ Gun-Control March on Washington

The teen-agers who say they're running the movement out of their parents' living rooms in south Florida are getting help from left-wing activists who run the Women's March and gun-control-advocacy organizations. "Few teens would have the resources and sophistication to pull off a major

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Don’t Pick Bill Gates for ‘Price Is Right’

Bill Gates guessed $5 for $1 Ricearoni, then $4 for $19.97 Tide pods,  He guessed $22 for $8.98 pizza rolls.

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Billy Graham Dies At 99

The world-famous evangelist famous for counseling presidents and leading mega-rallies for the Gospel, retired to his North Carolina mountain home in 2005. "He was so real, he made Christianity come true," said Susan Harding, an anthropologist at the University of California-Santa Cruz, according to USA Today. "He

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Want To Live Past 90? Booze

Exercise helps decrease the chance of dying before life expectancy, but not as much as drinking two glasses a day of beer or wine, says a study of nonagenarians. Being a little overweight doesn't hurt, either — it's a lot better than being underweight, according to a

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Some Utah GOPers Aren’t Happy About Mitt

Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney delayed his expected announcement that he is running for U.S. Senate in Utah because of the school shooting in Florida, but that didn't keep several prominent Republicans in Utah from disparaging his presumed candidacy — including the chairman of the Utah Republican Party,

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17 Confirmed Dead in Florida School Shooting

A possibly mentally ill former student at the large high school in Parkland, Florida is suspected of going on a rampage near the end of the school day Wednesday.

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Fourteen Worms in Your Eye?

An Oregon woman fishing in Alaska felt her eye irritated, and she found a tiny worm on it, which she plucked off; she later found 14 in all. Doctors say it's the first time cattle worms have ever been found in a human eye; the treatment is to