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No current or former President of the United States has faced criminal charges after leaving office. Two Presidents, Richard Nixon and William Clinton, have come close and one Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, plead nolo contendere to charges on the day he left office. With ten ongoing federal and eight ongoing state criminal investigations into Donald Trump, [...]

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted 56-39 in favor of allowing charter schools in the state for the first time. House Bill 520, supported by Governor Matt Bevin and amended by Representative Phil Moffett , allows...

The German Constitutional Court on Tuesday rejected efforts to ban the far-right ultranationalist political party National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) , finding the group does not pose a sufficient threat to the German government....

Former head of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller, failed to appear before a French court on Tuesday to answer a subpoena to appear for questioning on his involvement...

White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told Fox News Sunday that President Barack Obama intends to fulfill his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility before leaving office. The statement was...

US President Barack Obama on Thursday signed the Every Student Succeeds Act into law. The new measures hand much of the power over education success monitoring back to the states and allow them to make the...

Members of the US House of Representatives approved a bill to give much responsibility of improving public schools back to the states. The Student Success Act would revise the controversial 2001 No Child...

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Friday that voter-approved initiative 1240 , which allowed 40 charter schools across the state, is unconstitutional. The court determined that the schools cannot receive public funding because the state superintendent has...

A federal judge on Friday ruled that a new licensing exam for teachers in the state of New York did not discriminate against minorities. Kimba M. Wood of the US District Court for the Southern...

The US Senate on Thursday passed a bill to revamp the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind Act . The bill comes as part of an effort to overhaul the old law and give more flexibility...