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For years, American colleges and universities have focused on getting more students to seek higher education. Now they want to make sure more of their students leave campus with a diploma.

Officials said Cmdr. Eric Rasch failed to provide effective leadership, leading to a lack of oversight, complacency and failure to maintain standards in the squadron that included the sailors at the time of the January incident.

Before they were boxes of comforting essentials sent to college students, soldiers and others far from home, care packages were a vital lifeline for thousands of displaced families in postwar Europe.

British Prime Minister David Cameron called Nigeria and Afghanistan "fantastically corrupt." Then, Queen Elizabeth II was taped calling Chinese officials "very rude" during a state visit last year.

Before Hamas took over Gaza, agriculture was a big contributor to its economy. The U.S. hopes reviving the industry will boost not only farmers, but also security — by creating economic opportunity.

In just over a year, King Salman has decreed plans for major economic reform, launched a more assertive foreign policy and set a line of succession that could guide the kingdom for decades to come.

Education officials in the Poway Unified School District say there's a silverlining to all the bad economic news -- more adults are heading back to school to get their General Educational Development

Millions of dollars would flow back into the San Diego area economy if just half of the high school students who dropped out last year completed their education, according to a study released today.

Marisa Silver's new novel, Mary Coin, is a fictionalized look at a famous Depression-era photograph: Dorothea Lange's iconic "Migrant Mother." Reviewer Heller McAlpin says Silver skilfully weaves together different eras and narratives, creating "quietly heroic yet very human characters."

With a shaky government at the helm, Afghanistan confronts a tanking economy, a widening war with the Taliban, rampant corruption and the departure of thousands seeking a better life abroad.