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‘He sometimes calls me “bro.”’
British Prime Minister David Cameron on his close relationship with U.S. President Barack Obama.
‘Common Core is a big factor.’
Beth Herbert, founder of Lighthouse Christian Homeschool Association in Wake County, N.C., on the reason for the explosive growth in homeschooling in North Carolina. The Raleigh News & Observer reports that the state now has 98,172 homeschool students, up from 60,950 last year, and that homeschool students outnumber private school students in the state.
‘When I was told I would have to die to enter paradise, that I would have to explode a bomb and die, I said I cannot do it.’
A 13-year-old girl sent on a suicide mission in December by Boko Haram. She refused to detonate her vest at the last moment. She said her father gave her to the militants.
‘Say you’re sorry.’
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to current Mayor Bill de Blasio, saying that the mayor poisoned relations with the city’s police by creating “an impression with the police that he was on the side of the [anti-police] protesters.”
‘Non-human person.’
An Argentine Court’s description of a 29-year-old Sumatran orangutan at the Buenos Aires zoo. The court said the zoo was depriving the ape of its liberty and should transfer it to a sanctuary. Lawyer Paul Buompadre said the ruling sets a precedent “for other sentient beings which are unfairly and arbitrarily deprived of their liberty in zoos, circuses, water parks and scientific laboratories.”
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