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The new H Street streetcar line in the District may be scrapped after an outside review of the project.
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Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is under fire for doing little to uncover the whereabouts of 43 missing university students and facing accusations of cronyism. (Associated Press)
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Danwon High School students hold papers with messages such as "come back," "miss you," "love you" and "don't loose your hope" for their friends who are missing after Wednesday's ferry disaster at the school yard in Ansan, South Korea, Thursday, April 17, 2014. Strong currents, rain and bad visibility hampered an increasingly anxious search Thursday for 287 passengers, many thought to be high school students, still missing more than a day after their ferry flipped onto its side and sank in cold waters off the southern coast of South Korea. (AP Photo/Woohae Cho)
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A man reads messages showing signs of hope for the safe return of passengers of the sunken Sewol ferry in Ansan, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 24, 2014. Students in the city hit hardest by the South Korean ferry disaster returned to classes Thursday, their school campus a tragic landscape of yellow ribbons, chrysanthemums and photos of classmates and teachers who make up the vast majority of the more than 300 people feared dead. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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In this Dec. 9, 2014 photo, Adrian College student Abby Slusher studies in her dorm in Adrian, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) **FILE**
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Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray arrives to deliver a farewell address at Dunbar High School, his alma matter before stepping down at the end of the year, Washington, D.C., Wednesday, December 17, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012, file photo, North Korean students use computers in a classroom with portraits of the country's later leaders Kim Il-sung, left, and his son Kim Jong-il hanging on the wall at the Kim Chaek University of Technology in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
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Seven Bosnian girls ages 13 and 14 wound up pregnant after returning from a five-day school trip, sparking a nationwide discussion on sex education in the country's schools. (Wikimedia Commons/Michelle Tribe)
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Sex education teacher Shayna Knowles leads a class at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Lake Worth, Fla., in this Sept. 10, 2010, file photo. A new study by Child Trends finds that all kinds of sex-education programs can be successful. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
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Meditation helps manage stress. (AP Photo)
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Students attend their computer lesson on June 11, 2013, at the Pyongyang International Football School which opened May 31, 2013, on Rungna Island. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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A startling new anti-gun ad released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages children to commit a series of crimes by stealing their parents' guns and turning them over to school officials. (Sleeper 13 Productions)
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Illustration on the need to identify Islamic terrorism for what it is by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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Pakistani students pray during a special ceremony for the victims of Tuesday's school attack in Peshawar, at a school in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) ** FILE **
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Students from Washington's "School without Walls" lie down on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, after walking out of class to participate in a "die-in." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **
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Image: Twitter, The Islamic State group
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Chairs are upturned and blood stains the floor at the Army Public School auditorium the day after Taliban gunmen stormed the school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. Pakistan mourned as the nation prepares for mass funerals Wednesday for over 140 people, most of them children, killed in the Taliban massacre in a military-run school in the country’s northwest in the deadliest and most horrific attacks in years, officials said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Mourners and relatives of teacher Saeed Khan, a victim of a massive Taliban attack at a school, prayed around his body during his funeral procession in Peshawar, Pakistan. (Associated Press)
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Omar Mahmood was fired from the University of Michigan's campus newspaper for a piece of satire that targeted liberalism. (Image: The College Fix screenshot)