Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: April 17
WASHINGTON (AP) — Reversing course amid criticism, a nonprofit group run by former advisers to President Barack Obama said Thursday it would not
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — School activists are using unusual tactics to fight a contested proposal to overhaul the nearly bankrupt Philadelphia school
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Prosecutors plan to bring corruption charges against a prominent opponent of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, claiming h
NEW YORK (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America faces intensifying criticism from the left and right over a proposal to move away from a mandatory
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Major pharmaceutical firms and individuals linked to companies that have benefited from a $3 billion cancer-fighting Texas
BOSTON (AP) — The Oklahoma company that tried and failed to give away a former prep school campus in Massachusetts has donated the property to a
NEW YORK (AP) — Starbucks Corp. is donating a portion of its proceeds on World AIDS Day to help fight the disease.
LONDON (AP) — For skeptics, the Olympics were deliciously doomed: London's transport network would surely fail, Britain's athletes would flop,
WASHINGTON (AP) — As many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to get to their














