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France, Italy and Spain announced evacuations for their citizens and other Europeans. The U.S. has yet to announce evacuation plans for Americans but some have left the with the help of the Europeans. (Image credit: Sam Mednick/AP)

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Students and pro soccer players paint ceramic butterflies together to commemorate victims from Westphalia, where team is based, as part of The Butterfly Project education program

‘If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,’ says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges

Survivor of 2016 attack unwittingly transported Palestinian terrorist home, where he armed up; gunman’s father reportedly begged community center where he worked to hire son too

Voters continue to rate the president poorly on economic issues, but there are signs the national mood is beginning to improve.

The group behind Ron DeSantis had more money than those backing his rivals, including Donald J. Trump. But big spending has not helped his standing so far.

A ban on most kinds of traditional bulbs renews a cultural squabble between regulatory efforts to curb energy consumption and the very American impulse to do whatever one wants in one’s domicile.

Ms. Oliver, 71, was the first Black woman to hold statewide elected office there, after a long tenure in the General Assembly.