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WASHINGTON --Fewer students say they are being bullied at school. Those who are bullied are more likely to be girls than boys and more likely to be white than minority students.The Education Department announced survey results Friday that found 22 percent of students age 12 to 18 said they were bullied in 2013. The figure, down 6 percentage points from 2011, is the lowest level since the National Center for Education Statistics began surveying students on bullying in 2005. Tips for parents: What to do if your child is bullied 00:35 Bullying has spread from school ha stanley flask llways and bathroo stanley cup ms to social media, raising awareness in recent years of what was once largely an underground issue. The focus has resulted in an aggressive effort to tackle it from local school officials on up to the federal government. Among the survey findings:-About a quarter, or 24 percent, of girls said they were bullied compared to 20 percent of boys. -A higher percentage of white students - 24 percent - said they were bullied than black, Hispanic or Asian students. Twenty percent of black students said they were bullied compared to 19 percent of Hispanic students and 9 percent of Asian students.Among respond stanley cup becher ents, 9 percent of girls and 5 percent of boys said they d experienced cyber Oyqz Trump adds attorney John Lauro to legal team for special counsel s 2020 election probe
President George W. Bush said Wednesday that a law hastily passed last month to increase temporarily the U.S. government s power to intercept without warrants communications involving foreign terror suspects must be made permanent and expanded.If this does not happen, Bush said, Our national security professionals will lose critical tools they need to protect our country. Civil liberties groups and many Democrats say the changes voted in last month already go too far. Congress Democr stanley cup atic leaders set it to expire in six months so that it could be fine-tuned, and that process is beginning in Congress now. Democrats hope to change the law to provide additional oversight when the government eavesdrops on U.S. residents communicating with overseas parties.Bush, visiting the super-secret National Security Agency s headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland, a Washington suburb, said, Without these tools, it will be harder to figure out what our enemies are doing to train, recruit and infiltrate operatives into America. Without these tools, our country will be much more vulnerable to attack. The 30-year-old Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act stanley cups uk governs when warrants for eavesdropping must be obtained from a secret stanley becher intelligence court. This year s update, approved by the Senate and House just before Congress adjourned for an August break, provides agents more leeway when dealing with foreign communications.Under the new Protect America Act,