We gathered a group of people from diverse faith backgrounds last week to discuss the role religion plays in politics and the presidential election. Here are some highlights from the conversation.

As their ranks swell, Hispanic immigrants are seen as slow to assimilate into American society.

While the study suggests many girls have exceptional talent in math, they are rarely identified in the U.S. because culture discourages girls and boys from excelling.

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The Amity Turkish Cultural Center is winning friends and spreading its country's culture via a technique Southerners can relate to - hospitality. Since the 600 or so Turkish residents of the Jacksonville area established the center in 2006, they have held three dialogue dinners, inviting people met during outreach efforts by members and director Akif Aydin. The first year, 60 attended; the ...

That Hutchinson High School head football coach Randy Dreiling was observed unleashing a profane tir ...

THINGS do not always work out the way we want them to. Take the case of moral education in schools. Moral education was introduced to create a society of well-behaved and principled people, with the hope of reducing crime and corruption in society, and indiscipline in schools.

Some Palestinians have taken up arms and others attend peace talks in their decades-long struggle, but Nadim Khoury has found a third route to statehood -- the brewing of delicious local beer.

WORRIED SICK: Chinese mothers with their babies wait for treatment at a hospital after taking tainted milk powder in Hangzhou, eastern Chinas Zhejiang province.

Italian football - and indeed society itself in the peninsula - values experience and age above all else. Probably too much.