Prepare to sing Taylor Swift’s praises. The country music darling has donated $4 million to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for the construction and funding of a new education center, the organization said Thursday in a press release . The center, which will be named in her honor and is set to open in 2014, will feature three classrooms and a children’s exhibit gallery. Read full article > >

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President Barack Obama, in awarding a posthumous Medal of Honor to a Vietnam hero Wednesday, paid tribute to soldiers who received a cold reception when they returned home from the Southeast Asian war.

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is going to Los Angeles for a fund-raiser in his honor, following four in New York since spring that drew on supporters of same-sex marriage.

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Cuomo Fund Fills With Money From Thankful Gay Donors

Jeremiah A. Sweeney stood up to his full 6 feet 4 inches, raised the piece of paper he was holding to chest level, nodded toward the judge and read. “Bear with me, your honor,” he said. “I’m pretty emotional right now. . . . I ask that you consider all the improprieties in the case. . . . I am not a killer, your honor, and a jury verdict cannot transform me into such a person.” Read full article > >

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Maryland man’s troubled past clouds his present

A former Marine corporal who repeatedly braved enemy fire in attempting to rescue four comrades in Taliban-infested eastern Afghanistan has been selected to receive the Medal of Honor, the highest award given to members of the armed services, the White House announced Friday. Dakota Meyer, a former turret gunner and scout sniper from Kentucky, is only the third living veteran of the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts to be chosen for the honor, and he is the first living Marine to be designated for the award since 1973. Read full article > >

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A former Marine corporal who repeatedly braved enemy fire in attempting to rescue four comrades in Taliban-infested eastern Afghanistan has been selected to receive the Medal of Honor, the highest award given to members of the armed services, the White House announced Friday. Dakota Meyer, a former turret gunner and scout sniper from Kentucky, is only the third living veteran of the Afghan and Iraqi conflicts to be chosen for the honor, and the first living Marine to designated for the award since 1973. Read full article > >

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NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says the nation’s next aircraft carrier will be named the John F. Kennedy. Mabus announced the honor Sunday in memory of the 35th president. The nuclear-powered ship will be built at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Mabus said the naming of the next Gerald R. Ford-class carrier in Kennedy’s honor pays tribute to the late president’s service in the Navy. As commander of PT 109, Kennedy led his crew to safety after his ship was struck and split in half by an enemy ship in the Pacific. Read full article > >

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Newest US aircraft carrier to be named John F. Kennedy; second named for late president

The day after trustees approved honoring the playwright Tony Kushner, pressure kept mounting against the trustee who had tried to derail the honor.

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Under clear, blue skies, a ship dedicated to fallen Medal of Honor recipient and Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy was christened Saturday by his mother, Maureen, at Bath Iron Works shipyard in Maine.

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Destroyer named for fallen SEAL

Canadian election, Greenpeace river protest, Medal of Honor ceremony, student demonstration in Algeria, White House Situation Room during bin Laden killing and more from around the world.

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Elizabeth Hurley boutique opening, blown-up levee and more in the day in photos

During a somber ceremony Monday, President Obama bestowed the Medal of Honor posthumously upon two Army privates — Anthony T. Kaho’ohanohano of Pukalani, Hawaii, and Henry Svehla of Belleville, N.J. Both died in the Korean War.

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Obama awards Medal of Honor posthumously to two Korean War veterans

Recently, I had the honor of being dubbed a “vapid champion of the status quo” by American Enterprise Institute (AEI) resident education scholar Frederick Hess , a widely published, renowned advocate of the free-market public school “reform” movement, one that has reached the mainstream with the popularity “Waiting for Superman.” Hess has published numerous books read more

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Let’s Not "Reform" Public Education

Zenyatta beat the talented colt Blame, the only rival ever to finish in front of her, and Goldikova for the honor.

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Zenyatta Is Named Horse of the Year

As we near the birthday of Dr. King, let’s recall his response to violence.

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In MLK’s honor, let’s strive for dialogue that’s passionate but not poisonous

Nancy Pelosi brought camera crews and dignitaries into her childhood Baltimore neighborhood where a street was being renamed in her honor, while John Boehner is bringing his 11 siblings from working-class Ohio to Washington for a private reunion. Pelosi was feted at the Italian Embassy as Tony…

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Boehner to take helm with show of austerity