A few St. Thomas students protested for economic equality in downtown Minneapolis last weekend. Similar protests are happening across the country.

Obama promises to keep the pressure on Congress for his job initiatives.

CBS anchor Scott Pelley previews the 9/11 memorial in New York City.

Pope Benedict XVI is in Spain to celebrate the church’s World Youth Day.

Cargill said that it is recalling fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company’s Springdale, Ark., plant from Feb. 20 through Aug. 2 due to possible contamination from the strain of salmonella.

Norwegian police on Tuesday began releasing the names of those killed in last week’s bomb blast and massacre at a Labor Party youth camp, an announcement likely to bring new collective grief to an already reeling nation.

Officials warn that 800,000 children could die across the Horn of Africa. Aid workers are rushing to bring help to dangerous and previously unreached regions of drought-ravaged Somalia.

A massive bombing Friday in the heart of Oslo was followed by a horrific shooting spree on an island hosting a youth retreat for the prime minister’s center-left party. The same man, a Norwegian with reported Christian fundamentalist, anti-Muslim views, was suspected in both attacks.

The National Weather Service warning of excessive heat in several states predicts “oppressive heat” with temperatures at least in the 90s.

TOKYO — If Japan has a field of dreams, it’s a well-groomed patch of grass and dirt called Koshien.
Twice a year, high school baseball teams compete at the field outside Kobe in nationally televised tournaments that rivet the country. Last week, at the start of the spring tournament, a teen stood on a podium in [...]

St. Thomas student Ben Fahey is studying abroad in Japan and is safe after a monumental earthquake and tsunami hit the country, said Tim Dohmen, study abroad adviser.

The recent turmoil in Egypt has had a personal impact on some members of the St. Thomas community, including international student Nermeen Salem from Alexandria, Egypt, who has family members still living in Egypt.

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