Sandy Hook Students Return to Class

The children who escaped last month’s shootings at a Connecticut elementary school will be returning to classes in a neighbouring town in a refurbished school renamed after their old one.

The Newtown superintendent of schools, Janet Robinson, announced that the students’ new school, the former Chalk Hill Middle School…

Al-Jazeera Buys Current TV

Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab news channel which has struggled to win space on American cable television, has acquired Current TV, the channel founded by Al Gore and business partner Joel Hyatt.

Gore and Hyatt, who created the channel in 2005, confirmed the sale in a statement on Wednesday. The…

Kansas Wants Sperm Donor to Pay Child Support

The state of Kansas is seeking child support from a man who says he signed away all parental rights when he donated sperm to a lesbian couple.

“It came out of the blue. He was absolutely floored,” attorney Ben Swinnen said of his client William Marotta.

Marotta, 46, met Angela…

61 Die in Stampede After NYE Fireworks Show

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) — A crowd stampeded after leaving a New Year’s fireworks show early Tuesday in Ivory Coast’s commercial center, killing 61 people – many of them youths – and injuring more than 200, rescue workers said.

The death toll was expected to rise, the officials said.

Thousands had…

Hillary Clinton Hospitalized with Blood Clot

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.

Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday. Reines says Clinton is…