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MEXICO CITY – Mexican authorities say they are working to clean sargassum seaweed from 112 miles (180 kilometers) of the country’s Caribbean coast and will try to prevent more from coming ashore. The Environment Department said Tuesday that the government is setting up air and sea monitoring of sargassum mats …

BEIJING – The nephew of lawyer-activist Chen Guangcheng has been released from prison after serving a three-year, three-month sentence widely seen as retribution for his uncle’s daring escape from house arrest. Chen said in an email from the United States that Chen Kegui had returned to his home in eastern …

For generations of Americans, the opportunity to go to college has served as the pathway to social mobility. Today, however, predatory for-profit colleges are giving students and taxpayers the shaft by trading on this American dream—and some prominent Republicans are defending these institutions. This year alone, the two largest for-profit …