Calling the students an inspiration “to me … the world,” President Barack Obama urged Joplin High School graduates Monday to heed the lessons they've learned and spirit they've shown to rebuild not only their tornado-ravaged city, but their nation.

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Obama to Joplin grads: ‘Pay it forward’

The House of Lords is being urged to learn the lessons of Downton Abbey and tackle the ban on women becoming hereditary peers

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Peers ‘should end bar to women’

Part of Steve Jobs’s legacy will be the lessons learned by those who worked closely with him over the years.

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Steve Jobs and the Power of Taking the Big Chance

Learning all the lessons from Japan’s worst nuclear accident may take a decade, regulators tell a Paris conference.

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‘Ten years’ for Fukushima lessons

The influence of religion on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” was easy to see, but the lessons Ms. Winfrey shared with her flock were sometimes questionable.

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Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering

“There are no words to match this moment,” Oprah said Wednesday as she brought down the curtain on her syndicated daytime talk show, while all around her, media reports rained down about The End of the Oprah Winfrey Era. “Today, there will be no guest,” Oprah told Wednesday’s gaily dressed studio-audience members, who’d been instructed to wear bright colors, according to news reports. “This last hour is about me saying thank you. It is my love letter to you. I want to leave you all with the lessons that have been the anchor for my life and the ones that I hold most precious,” she said in the finale of  “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” dressed in an elegant peach sheath, diamonds bobbing brilliantly off her wrist and ears. Read full article > >

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Oprah Winfrey signs off after 25 years in daytime talk TV

Newt Gingrich represents a new Republican stance on immigration.

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Spanish lessons for the GOP

MATANAI, PAKISTAN – In this village within miles of the Afghan border, Noor Malik is struggling to keep his pro-government tribal militia alive.

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Pakistani anti-Taliban militias offer lessons for U.S. in Afghanistan

MATANAI, PAKISTAN – In this village within miles of the Afghan border, Noor Malik is struggling to keep his pro-government tribal militia alive.

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Pakistani anti-Taliban militias offer lessons for U.S. in Afghanistan

Returning officers are urged to “learn the lessons” of the chaotic scenes outside some polling stations in May’s general election ahead of future polls.

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Poll warning for local officials