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House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) was in Philadelphia on Monday to promote the expansion of charter schools, vouchers and alternatives to public education. Touring select cities to spread the mantra of school "choice," Cantor made a couple of callous decisions when visiting the City of Brotherly Love. Rather than draw attention to the funding crisis facing Philadelphia’s public schools, he chose to ignore the plight of its 134,000 students. Cantor applauded the rise of charter schools, which have played a direct role in creating the school district’s current crisis.
The pilot who had a heart attack that forced the emergency landing of a United Airlines flight in Boise, Idaho, on Thursday evening has died, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed to NBC News.The spokeswoman at Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise confirmed the pilot’s death on Friday morning.
The pilot of a United Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Boise, Idaho, on Thursday evening has died, a hospital spokeswoman confirmed to NBC News.The spokeswoman at Saint Alphonsus Hospital in Boise confirmed the pilot’s death on Friday morning.
A United Airlines flight bound for Seattle with 165 people on board made an emergency landing at Boise Airport on Thursday evening after the pilot suffered a heart attack, an airport spokeswoman said.The Boeing 737 landed safely shortly after 8 p.m. local time (10 p.m.
NEW YORK – The two men held a long embrace after a Manhattan city clerk pronounced them married at a City Hall ceremony. They had traveled 2,000 miles to get here, one more leg of a years-long journey to having their relationship legally recognized in the United States.
It's likely going to be a hairy Friday morning for commuters trying to traverse the New Haven line of the Metro-North Railroad — but help is on the way, officials said late Thursday.
The Navy ordered an investigation into the deadly Washington Navy Yard shooting on Thursday, and the D.C. medical examiner released the gunman’s remains.
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Six people who allegedly facilitated a massive unauthorized party — which left a former NFL lineman's New York home trashed as he watched it unfold on Twitter — have been arrested and were due to appear in court Thursday evening, officials.
A woman who was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she fired a warning shot in a wall amid a dispute with her allegedly abusive husband will receive a new trial, A Florida appeals court has ordered.
