78%
The portion of students in the United States who graduated from high school on time in 2010 -- the highest rate since 1976.
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AP/Politico
The portion of students in the United States who graduated from high school on time in 2010 -- the highest rate since 1976.
"Head tax," per employee, that Seattle will soon charge the city's big businesses like Amazon and Starbucks. The revenue will help address homelessness, which has reached emergency levels there. Other cities have a similar tax, but they are much smaller -- just $48.
Amount the teen who started a wildfire in Oregon last year -- by throwing fireworks -- is ordered to pay its victims.
Monthly pension for the now-ex-sheriff's deputy who failed to enter a Parkland, Fla., high school during the February mass shooting that left 17 dead. There have been calls to revoke his retirement benefits, but the governor says state law restricts him from doing that.
Potentially active volcanoes in the United States, including Hawaii's Kilauea, which recently erupted.
Cases of gonorrhea, chlamydia and syphilis in California last year, which is a 45 percent increase since 2013 and the highest number since at least 1990.
New tax, per employee, that big companies in Seattle, like Amazon and Starbucks, will soon have to pay. The money will go toward alleviating homelessness, which reached emergency levels in the city in 2015.