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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Pat Robertson, a religious broadcaster who turned a tiny Virginia station into the global Christian Broadcasting Network, tried a run for president and helped make religion central to Republican Party politics in America through his Christian Coalition, has died. He was 93. Robertson’s death Thursday was announced by his broadcasting network. No cause was given. Robertson’s enterprises also included Regent University, an evangelical Christian school in Virginia Beach; the American Center for Law and Justice, which defends the First Amendment rights of religious people; and Operation Blessing, an international humanitarian organization. For more than a...

The bar keeps dropping on state math exams — and critics are saying it’s because officials are desperate for high graduation rates. Kids only need to score a measly 30 percent on this month’s Algebra 1 Regents test to pass, according to new state guidelines. Students who manage just 26 out of 86 total points will get a heavily weighted score of 65 — the minimum required for passage. That’s the lowest standard since the state introduced the test four years ago.

<p>VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY/AP) - Donald Trump will be in Hampton Roads Wednesday, a day after winning the Republican presidential caucuses in Nevada, giving the billionaire businessman three straight wins in the race for the GOP nomination.</p> <p>Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz are vying for second place, far ahead of John Kasich and Ben Carson.</p>

VIRGINIA BEACH Republican presidential contender Jeb Bush wanted to talk issues during a visit to Hampton Roads on Friday but also had to explain why his campaign was slashing spending. At Regent University, Bush acknowledged that the strong showing by real estate executive Donald Trump has led him to make deep campaign spending cuts, including trimming payroll by 40 percent and slashing travel. "The circumstances when we started the election were different," said Bush, who had accumulated one of the largest campaign bank accounts but has been lagging behind Trump and a few other candidates in most state and national...

I wonder where my check is. Companies and government agencies often try to settle lawsuits out of court. In many cases they are much cheaper. That is until the government takes over. The original bill on Pigford was introduced by Senator Barack Obama. The courts reviewed the case and eventually the Supreme Court ruled that 91 farmers were deserving of settlements based on racial bias. No one can argue that was not fair. Discrimination did take place. But in 2009, Bob Menendez threatened to shut down the settlement unless thousands of Hispanics were added to the payoffs and Obama then...

Secret correspondence between the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor and their confidant Kenneth de Courcy has revealed a dastardly scheme to change the course of British history by denying Queen Elizabeth II the crown, says royal biographer Christopher Wilson. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal that amid the deteriorating health of the Duke’s brother King George VI, furtive discussions began among rattled courtiers and senior politicians to the possibility of a “caretaker” monarch. The natural successor, and heir apparent, was the then Princess Elizabeth. But in the spring of 1949, when the plot was at its height, she was just...

Democrat Creigh Deeds is not backing off negative campaign ads against Republican Bob McDonnell, at least in the Northern Virginia area. The campaign this morning releases a new spot already airing in the Washington area, which attacks McDonnell's claim, featured on many campaign signs, that he is "Fairfax's Own" because of his Northern Virginia childhood. "Bob McDonnell says he's from Fairfax County," the narrator says. "But that was before he attended Pat Robertson's law school. And served on its board." Before, the narrator continues, he wrote that working women are detrimental to the family, he introduced 35 bills on abortion...

Veterans in Politics Talk Show Introduces Jack Schofield LIVE on www.AllTalkRadio.net November 8:: Jack Schofield Nevada State University Board of Regent, District 5:: "Veterans In Politics" is a weekly radio show produced by the Veterans In Politics International and hosted by Steve Sanson. The "Veterans In Politics" show is live every Saturday 2:05 PM Pacific Time you can call in and speak to the guest or/and host at (702) 942-7371.

http://www.regent.edu/events/commencement/2007/video_high.cfm The clip of Mitt begins at 29:00. It's an excellent, well-delivered speech, even moving. Much better than a lecture on the Palestinian rights I received at mine. Some excerpts: "You know, I don't remember when it was exactly when I went beyond the sandbar. My family had a cottage on the shores of one of the Great Lakes. For the first 40 feet or so, the lake is shallow, warm, and protected from the big waves by a sandbar. That's where I spent most of the hot summer days as a boy. I liked it there. One day, my...

CBNNews.com - Virginia Beach, Va - Before the celebrating came the turning of tassels and accepting this charge: "I want you to strive for greatness through service," said CBN founder Pat Robertson. The largest class in Regent's history sang a hymn bowed their heads in prayer. "Father," prayed Pastor Jack Hayford. "We come with hearts of gratitude for each of these graduates." {snip} Some say they were initially skeptical about having a Mormon address a Christian audience. "There were some people who were alarmed," said Regent graduate Cassy McLauchlin. "I was surprised because I just didn't think he was the...

Mitt Romney did not play the role of JFK today during his Commencement address at Regent University. Political "experts" kicked around the idea that this would be an ideal setting for Romney to address the concerns about his Mormon faith because he was speaking in front of a predominently Evangelical audience. JFK addressed concerns about his Catholicism decades ago. But so far, Romney has not delivered any speech dedicated to his faith. I'm glad he didn't do it in this venue. The speech was not supposed to be about Romney. It's supposed to be about these college students and hopeful...

In the past few years, religious conservatives have realized what their liberal counterparts saw long ago: The place where the culture wars are won or lost is in the courtroom. Some religious leaders, including Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, have set up schools to train their own battalion of lawyers. Regent University School of Law: Founded by televangelist Pat Robertson, Regent University School of Law was established in 1986 as a full-time, three-year law program. It gained full accreditation from the American Bar Association (ABA) in 1996 -- the first religiously conservative law school to do so. Today, 500 students...

<p>Gov. Gray Davis appointed longtime labor and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta to the UC Board of Regents on Tuesday.</p> <p>Huerta, who with Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union, is synonymous with the labor movement, and her appointment caps an activist career that began 48 years ago, fighting segregation and getting out the vote in Stockton.</p>

<p>BERKELEY, Calif. - Ward Connerly, who led the fight to drop race-based admissions at the University of California, wants the system to stop sponsoring race-themed activities such as separate ceremonies for black graduates.</p> <p>Connerly, a member of UC's governing board of regents, is proposing a ban on using UC funds for extracurricular events designed for specific race, ethnic or sexual orientation groups.</p>

Baylor regent under investigation by university officials By BRIAN GAAR, CINDY V. CULP and J.B. SMITH Tribune-Herald staff writers After refusing a request to resign, a member of Baylor University's Board of Regents on Friday became the official target of an internal investigation into whether she tipped off Baylor students to an ongoing undercover drug sting operation on campus, several sources said. Jaclanel Moore McFarland, a Houston attorney and board member since 2001, has told Baylor officials that she did not tip off anyone to the drug operation, saying she did not even know that one was under way until...

<p>BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - The president of the University of California is asking governors of the nine-campus system to take a stand against one of their own and oppose Ward Connerly's campaign to stop state and local agencies from collecting race data.</p>

<p>University of Nevada Regent Linda Howard says UNLV President Carol Harter leaked documents to discredit her, and regents Steve Sisolak and Mark Alden targeted her in a “negative crusade.”</p> <p>“Your choices show disrespect for me as a person as well as for my position as a regent,” Howard wrote to Harter in a Wednesday memo published Friday by the Las Vegas Sun.</p>