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• Post-TAKS pizza parties may be illegal
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Administrators may be breaking the law by giving pizza to kids who pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills test. The Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott is warning school superintendents that rewarding students ...
• Parties wage war over voter fraud, intimidation
Republicans allege Democrats and their allies are trying to subvert the voter registration system, and perhaps the election itself, with an avalanche of inaccurate or fraudulent new voter registrations. But Democrats charge Republicans are trying to ...
• Iraqi women fear going public as candidates
In the past elections, names did not appear on the ballot — only numbers and symbols identified with political parties. That system helped empower well-organized religious parties and left many Iraqis feeling little connection with elected ...
• Canada's leader gambles for majority gov't
The left-of-center vote is divided among four parties, which may allow Harper to win a majority government even with less than 40 percent of the overall vote. The poll results represented 1,284 interviews conducted Wednesday through Saturday with a ...
• Exit poll: conservatives ahead in Lithuania vote
The poll, released on Lithuania's TV3 network moments after voting ending, showed the conservative Homeland Union with 21 percent in the Baltic country's parliamentary vote, while two allied populist parties — Order and Justice and the Labor Party ...