HARTFORD, Conn. It’s called “passing the trash”: A school suspects a teacher of sexual misconduct and forces the teacher out to protect the students. But that teacher can still get a new job in a new school, sometimes with a glowing recommendation. Only Pennsylvania, Missouri and Oregon ban the maneuver, but a federal mandate passed […]

NEW YORK Unlike other presidential wives, Nancy Reagan didn’t testify before Congress about health care, celebrate controversial Supreme Court decisions or sit in on Cabinet meetings. “She never emerged as a political player in her own right. Nor did she seek to,” says historian David Greenberg, the author of “Republic of Spin: An Inside History […]

CLEVELAND (AP) — Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic are set today to discuss details about the first uterus transplant performed in the U.S. Clinic doctors performed the surgery late last month in Cleveland on a 26-year-old woman who did not have a uterus. The hospital has provided few details, but says the donor uterus came […]

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A teenage pilot flying a small vintage plane has made an emergency landing on a golf course in at the St. Petersburg Country Club in Florida. St. Petersburg police spokesman Rob Shaw tells news outlets that neither the unidentified 18-year-old pilot nor a 17-year-old passenger was hurt in the Saturday […]

ATLANTA (AP) — A longtime friend of Harper Lee says he is writing a book on the Pulitzer-Prize winning author who wrote the American classic “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Wayne Flynt told The Associated Press on Saturday that he expects the book, a mix of memoir and biography, to be finished by the end of […]

WASHINGTON A U.S. company assigned a crucial role in the efforts to battle Ebola in Sierra Leone made a series of costly mistakes during the 2014 outbreak, an Associated Press investigation has found. Staffers with the San Francisco-based company, Metabiota Inc., not only misread the epidemic, they contributed to botched lab results, undermined partners and […]

BRUSSELS European Union leaders today sought to press Turkey to do more to stop migrants from entering Europe and to shore up support for Greece, where thousands of people are stranded. The leaders are expected to acknowledge that the main Balkan migrant route is effectively closed, after Macedonia — backed by Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and […]

TUNIS, Tunisia Tunisian police and unidentified gunmen clashed near the Libyan border today, killing at least 26 people, authorities said, amid increasing concern that violent extremism in Libya could destabilize the region. The dead included 21 attackers, one Tunisian soldier and four civilians, the interior and defense ministries said in a joint statement. A 12-year-old […]

HAVANA “This is a conversation between two children,” Graciela Lage Delgado tells a rapt class of third-graders, tightly enunciating each English word from a textbook called “Welcome to America.” “Is it a TV?” Lage asks in a girl’s voice, pointing to an illustration of a boxy silver robot. “No, it’s not!” the kids shout back […]