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Arne Duncan, who has served in the role since January 2009, is expected to be succeeded by John King Jr., a former education commissioner from New York state.

“He appears to be an angry young man who was very filled with hate,” a law enforcement official said.

Chris Harper Mercer, 26, has been identified as the person responsible for shooting dead at least nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon Thursday.

A spokesman for the militant group said that its fighters were responsible for shooting down a U.S. C-130 aircraft over Jalalabad, in which at least 11 people were killed.

Americans should pressure elected officials to advance legislation against gun violence, the president said in a televised address Thursday.

Oregon shooter Chris Harper Mercer reportedly demanded to know victims' religion before firing.

Law enforcement officers in Roseburg, Oregon, shot and killed the 26-year-old gunman Thursday, after at least 10 people were slain at a community college.

With increased Russian military activity in the Arctic, NATO member Norway reacted Thursday to a perceived threat.

"I’ve said that if Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country," Netanyahu said in New York City Thursday.

With Russian airstrikes in Syria, low oil prices and sanctions, Russian businesses are holding back on construction and expansion plans.

Some ultra-Orthodox Jewish newspapers have a ban on printing pictures of women since it "turns them into objects."

In his U.N. speech, the Israeli prime minister is expected to blast the Iran nuclear deal, which Israel bitterly opposed when it was signed earlier this year.

"Washington's willingness to move forward with radars sends a clear signal."

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said some Syrian refugees may be part of ISIS, and asked why they were fleeing their country instead of fighting the militants.

Unflattering information about U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chairs a committee investigating the agency, was made public.

The stopgap legislation signed into law Wednesday gives the president and Congress more time to negotiate a longer-term budget plan.

The Sanders campaign made the announcement on Reddit. The average donation, the campaign said, is $33.51.

Moscow’s rhetoric about helping eliminate ISIS meant little while it continued to prop up Syria's President Bashar Assad, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.

Ramzan Kadyrov is eager to send "world-class specialists" to help Russia fight the Islamic State group in Syria.

Israel said it received advanced notice of Russia's first airstrikes in Syria Wednesday as Western leaders worried about the areas targeted.

Polls suggest that Hillary Clinton remains popular with black voters, even after a bruising contest against Barack Obama in 2008.