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In a month, a group of Baylor University graduates will travel to Thailand to teach at the Chitralada Palace School.

CONCORD, N.H. — Hillary Rodham Clinton will make her first trip as a presidential candidate to the early voting state of New Hampshire next week.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio man traveled to Syria and trained alongside terrorists, then returned to the U.S. with plans to attack a military base or a prison, according to a federal indictment announced Thursday.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Bible usually unites Republicans in conservative Tennessee, but lately it is proving to be — as an epistle writer put it — more powerful and sharper than a double-edged sword.

Students voted Houston junior Pearson Brown student body president for the 2015-16 school year in a runoff election today. Brown defeated Frisco sophomore James Porter by a margin of 1,555 to 912 votes.

The School of Social Work announced on Wednesday that inaugural dean, Dr. Diana Garland, will step down to faculty, but faculty members said she will continue to lead stronger than ever for the remainder of the semester.

Baylor Dining Services will renovate Memorial Dining Hall and adding a new commercial cafe and bakery, Au Bon Pain, to the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation.

Months after a teenager was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer, the city is still refusing to release the dash-cam video of the fatal shooting and didn’t even show it to aldermen Wednesday before they approved a $5 million settlement with the family.

Vacations in Europe have a new attraction: the euro’s steep drop in value is making the continent much cheaper for tourists from across the world, especially the United States.

SAN ANTONIO — Immigrant children at a federal detention facility in Texas are acting depressed after months of regimentation and confinement, said a Honduran mother who was recently released with her 2-year-old son.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, the White House announced Tuesday, a key step in his bid to normalize relations between the two countries.

Fountain Mall will finally have a fountain, now that renovations are underway on Fountain Mall and Fifth Street.

Dr. Bennie Ward, distinguished professor of physics since 2003, has traveled across the country and internationally to teach, research, solve problems in physics, work with the government and on the supercollider in Geneva, Switzerland.

A runoff has been declared in the election for Baylor student body president between Houston junior Pearson Brown and Frisco sophomore James Porter. According to the results posted outside of the student government office, Brown received 1,057 votes, compared to Porter who received 771 votes and Kinghorn who received 699.

Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of Steppin’ Out, and Rebecca Langford, a member of the external committee for the event, said the Baylor community will serve Waco, rain or shine.

Student Senate voted 39-12 on Thursday, to override a veto by Arlington senior Dominic Edwards, student body president, on a bill relating to changes in the Electoral Code. The veto would have restricted student government candidates and campaign workers from posting to their personal social media accounts.

As part of a nationwide effort by universities to increase the number of women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics related fields, Baylor’s School of Engineering and Computer Science received a grant to sponsor “Ladies and Legos” programs this month to attract more women to the school.

Meet the 2015 Student Body Officer candidates!

The Baylor Alumni Network changed its 2015 traditional Diadeloso summer venue from San Antonio at SeaWorld to Six Flags Fiesta Texas.

At 88 percent white faculty, Baylor is tied with Loyola University Chicago for having the highest percentage of white faculty among all universities that have 700 to 1,000 faculty members, according to data collected by the Chronicle for Higher Education.

Exactly 800 changes to the Student Body Constitution are up for approval at Thursday’s Student Senate meeting, some of which have drawn scrutiny from both members of Student Court and the Senate.

A young man whose cellphone video put a South Carolina police officer in jail on a murder charge said Wednesday that he gave the recording to the dead man’s family because if it was his relative who was killed, he “would have liked to know the truth.”

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a jury that will now decide whether the 21-year-old should be executed for what his lawyer says was a crime masterminded by his big brother.

Utah’s governor called for answers Wednesday in the death of an inmate whose dialysis providers failed to show up for treatment.

The Business Resource Center will hold four community meetings throughout Waco next week to gather insight about updates to Imagine Waco, the plan for development in greater downtown Waco.

Malia Obama is not your average 16-year-old: Her driving lessons were provided by the U.S. Secret Service.

Jake Russell, a recent Baylor alum running for Waco City Council, is determined to make a difference in the city he now considers home.

Arna Bontemps Hemenway, assistant professor of English in creative writing, has won this year’s PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction for his short story collection “Elegy on Kinderklavier.”

Leaders of student government held a constitutional review for eight and a half hours Monday to alter, update and amend the Student Body Constitution, said Arlington senior Dominic Edwards, student body president.

The Baylor Model United Nations team was recognized as an “Honorable Mention Delegation” and given “Outstanding Position Paper” for one of their policy position papers at the National United Nations Conference that took place between March 28 and April 3 in New York.