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The singer gained stardom after finishing ninth on "American Idol" in 2006. In 2014, she won a Grammy for best contemporary Christian music album for "Overcomer," her fifth album.
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Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted over three days this week on whether to join the United Auto Workers union. The vote tally is expected to take several hours.
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Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
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Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.
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China's feared state security ministry has been more public and more powerful in its quest to suppress internal dissent and monitor foreign activity.
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Nearly a billion people start going to the polls in India Friday, as the worlds largest democracy starts its mammoth election.
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Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other's territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.
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The modern study of starvation was sparked by the liberation of concentration camp survivors. U.S. and British soldiers rushed to feed them — and yet they sometimes perished.
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The new rules also broaden the interpretation of Title IX to cover pregnant, gay and transgender students. They do not address whether schools can ban trans athletes from women's and girls' teams.
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Mikael Petrosyan of Children's National Hospital says gun violence against children is preventable.