Events Highlight Immigrant Soldiers' Service, Quest for Citizenship

ASU launches the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement on Feb. 4, designed to craft veteran-friendly educational settings, mentor veteran-student researchers and expand ASU’s oral history projects. A two-day tribute to America’s immigrant veterans who have defended their adopted

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Schweikert: Government Needs to Support Entrepreneurs' Market-Changing Ideas

By JOE MARTINCronkite News Service PHOENIX – U.S. Rep. David Schweikert, R-Scottsdale, warned a group of entrepreneurs Wednesday that established companies and their lobbyists will fight to keep startups’ innovations from disrupting their markets. “Legacy manufacturers are scared to death

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American Meb Keflezighi Dominates Boston Marathon

By Francisco Romero More than 35, 000 signed up to run the Boston Marathon this year and after 2 hours, 8 minutes and 37 seconds, American Meb Keflezighi finished first across the finish line to conquer the 2014 edition of

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Digital Book Program Aims to Prevent Summer Reading Slide

By KIRSTEN KRAKLIO Cronkite News Service PHOENIX – Summer vacation often means a break from schoolwork for students, but to Terri Clark it means the potential for the summer slide – and not the one at the local water park.

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World of Boxing Mourns the Death of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter

By Francisco Romero Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a middleweight boxing fighter whose career as a boxer never reached its peak as he spent 19 years wrongly convicted in jail, died Sunday at the age of 76. According to his fried Jon

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Diamondbacks Woes Continue as they Lose 2 out of 3 in L.A.

By Francisco Romero After losing consecutive series to the Dodgers and the Mets at home, the Arizona Diamondbacks traveled to Los Angeles to try and find better luck away from Chase Field to face the Dodgers once again.   The Diamondbacks

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Nobel Prize-Winning Author Gabriel García Márquez Dies At 87

Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez has died at age 87. Márquez had been recently hospitalized for infections in his lungs and urinary tract. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers

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Fruit-Flavored Watermelon Wine Set to be Best-Seller Among Younger Drinkers

Fruit-flavored wines are set to become a best-seller on supermarket shelves, according to a new report. Younger Britons have fueled a boom in fruit-flavored beers and now the wine industry is attempting to do the same with wine using the

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More 13 to 17-year-olds use "Hook Up" App Tinder than their 35 to 44-year-old Parents

A large amount of teens are now using the dating app Tinder.  13 to 17-year-olds make up the majority of users for this “hook up” app. Tinder’s co-founder Justin Mateen added that 25 to 32-year-olds make up about 32 percent

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Arizona's Gordon, Johnson Declare for NBA Draft

TUCSON, Ariz. – Following a season in which they helped lead the Arizona men’s basketball program to a 33-5 record, a Pac-12 regular-season title and an Elite Eight appearance, Aaron Gordon and Nick Johnson have entered their names in the 2014 NBA Draft.

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