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A New York City middle school teacher’s lesson on slavery in America has sparked outrage after she allegedly singled out black students and told them to lie face-down on the classroom floor. Students and a staff member at a middle school in the Bronx told the New York Daily News […]

President Donald Trump heads to Ohio on Monday to make Cincinnati-area stops focusing on the new tax overhaul — though some in a state with one of the nation’s highest overdose rates would rather hear more about his plans for the drug crisis. In Newtown, outside Cincinnati, Police Chief Tom […]

In a story Feb. 2 about Jon Huntsman Sr., The Associated Press erroneously reported the amount of money Huntsman gave to a super PAC supporting his son’s presidential campaign. He gave more than $1.8 million, not $1.8 billion. A corrected version of the story is below: Jon Huntsman Sr., Utah […]

President Donald Trump tweeted this morning that a controversial Republican memo alleging abuses of government surveillance powers at the FBI and Justice Department “totally vindicates” him in the Russia investigation. The four-page memo was written by Republican staff of the House Intelligence Committee and released Friday — despite “grave concerns” […]

Much of the Upper Midwest and Eastern U.S. is in the midst of a February cold blast. Wind chills this morning along the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to Boston are in the low teens and single digits. The wind chills are below zero in interior New England. Single-digit wind […]

The Pentagon’s new Nuclear Posture Review calls for the development of two new submarine-launched missiles with low-yield nuclear warheads that could serve as a deterrent to Russia’s modernization of its inventory of 2,000 tactical weapons. Developed over the last year, the new report acknowledges the changes around the world since […]

Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky who recently was attacked by a neighbor while working on his lawn, said he believes the anger and polarization around the country fueled the assault. “Somebody who is going to attack you has to have something else wrong other than your yard,” he […]

Super Bowl LII is set, with the Philadelphia Eagles facing off against the New England Patriots this Sunday in a rematch of the 2005 Super Bowl that the Patriots won 24-21. Here’s what you need to know: Patriots set their sights on victory after 2017’s historic comeback This will be […]

Reaction across Capitol Hill to the controversial memo compiled by Republican staff on the House Intelligence Committee was swift. Democrats harshly criticized the decision to release the memo, which President Trump authorized Friday morning in a letter relayed to the House Intelligence Committee. The memo details the process that led […]

The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4 p.m. The stock market closed sharply lower, extending a weeklong slide, as the Dow Jones industrial average plunged more than 600 points. Stocks ended their worst week in two years Friday, and the Dow’s drop was its biggest in […]