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Die große Koalition hat in der vergangenen Wahlperiode mehr Versprechen gehalten, als die Wähler denken. Einer Studie der Bertelsmann Stiftung zufolge, die in der kommenden Woche veröffentlicht wird, sind 79 Prozent der 188 konkreten Vereinbarungen aus dem Koalitionsvertrag von 2013 voll oder teilweise eingelöst worden. Bereits in der ersten Hälfte der Legislaturperiode hätten CDU, CSU…

US President Donald Trump has reiterated his call to arm teachers in the wake of the Florida school shooting, claiming an educator with a weapon would have mowed down the suspected gunman “before he ever knew what happened”. “Gun-adept” teachers, coaches, and other school workers should be allowed to carry a concealed weapon on campus…

Steve Schwarzman gave a rare, $25 million gift to his high school. Many educators are enthusiastic but some worry private donations could exacerbate inequality.

As the newest cooperator for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Rick Gates gives prosecutors a powerful weapon in pursuing former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and possible election collusion with Russia. Gates, who pleaded guilty Friday in Washington, was Manafort’s right-hand man and worked with him for a decade in his political consulting firm lobbying on…

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — John Shuster’s last throw in the eighth end of the Olympic curling final clacked off one Swedish stone and knocked it into another, sending them both skittering out of scoring range. Five yellow-handled American rocks were left behind. The score, known as a five-ender, is so rare it has only…

A couple who went for a routine scan 12 weeks into their pregnancy were heartbroken to discover their baby may only survive for minutes after being born. Daniel Thompson and Georgina Wills are already making funeral arrangements for their third child after they discovered the baby was suffering from a rare condition called Exencephaly. The…