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A San Antonio charter school has apologized after a teacher asked students in an eighth grade American history class to list the positive and negative aspects of slavery. The Great Hearts Monte Vista teacher who distributed the worksheet titled "The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View" was placed on leave and the school said it would audit the textbook associated with the lesson, said Aaron Kindel, the superintendent of Great Hearts Texas, which operates 28 public charter schools in Texas and Arizona.
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COMEY: I can't answer that. That's something- that hypothetical is too hard for me to go back in time to try and answer- TAPPER: You paint a pretty dire picture of President Trump.
"...you can't help but admire the man McGarry becomes and feel a little sad for the road he had to walk..." It's one thing to hear about climate change, but so much more to experience it firsthand. Filmmakers Danfung Dennis and Eric Strauss break that boundary between seeing and experiencing with a four-part virtual reality documentary series, collectively called sets the stage with former Vice President Al Gore returning to Greenland to check on the rapidly diminishing glaciers.
April 21, 2008 - ANCHORAGE - Old billing records show ties between convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and U.S. Rep. Don Young, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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The No. 3 House Republican leader has been released from a hospital after follow-up surgery related to the wounds he received from a shooting at a GOP baseball practice 10 months ago.
In this March 16, 2018, file photo, political activist Tom Steyer speaks during an event in Cincinnati. Steyer is spending millions of his own money on a campaign arguing to remove President Donald Trump from office, but the effort isn't necessarily reflected across the rest of the Democratic Party and the progressive left.
The list of family, dignitaries and invited guests attending funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush Saturday is long and distinguished. The funeral set for 11 a.m. at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston.
The Democratic Party sued Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Russia, WikiLeaks and Trump's son and son-in-law Friday, accusing them of an intricate conspiracy to undercut Democrats in the 2016 election by stealing tens of thousands of emails and documents. The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court seeks unspecified damages and an order to prevent further interference with computer systems of the Democratic National Committee.
A judge has ordered Maine's secretary of state to reopen a probe into Republican U.S. Senate candidate Max Linn's petition to be on the ballot. The judge told Secretary of State Matt Dunlap on Friday to accept new evidence from the campaign of Eric Brakey of Auburn, who is seeking the Republican nomination to run for U.S. Senate.
Utah Republican party members are gathering to decide if U.S. Senate hopeful Mitt Romney will be forced into a primary as they choose nominees for races ranging from Congress to state Legislature. The group of several thousand core party members will talk with candidates Saturday at decked-out booths and listen to speeches.
Three members of Congress are asking the U.S. Air Force to move faster on removing chemical contamination around the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Oscoda, Michigan. Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Senator Gary Peters and Rep. Dan Kildee made the request in a letter, noting that Congress recently boosted funding for cleaning up military installations tainted with chemicals commonly known as PFAS.
President Donald Trump plans to celebr... . The U.S. and French flags are displayed on the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Friday, April 20, 2018, in Washington.
April 18, U.S. Senators Cory Booker and Dick Durbin along with Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi introduced a bill to lower the barriers to voting for millions of college students. Booker and Krishnamoorthi joined dozens of student leaders from around the country to announce the bill - called the Help Students Vote Act - earlier today at a press conference at the Capitol.
In seven special elections since the 2016 election, Democrats have overperformed in districts and states that Republicans have historically dominated, and they might add Arizona's 8th congressional district to that growing list. But the reason for this may have less to do with a Democratic wave and more to do with the fact that these districts are located in the suburbs, which are largely turning their support from red to blue.
NBC is reporting that Mike Pompeo lacks the votes in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to have his nomination to be Secretary of State be favorably reported out of committee on Monday night. Democrats on the committee have expressed fears that Pompeo, a warmonger, will reinforce the worst tendencies of Trump.
Larry Campell, left, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer's budget director, confers with J.G. Scott, center, the Legislature's top fiscal analyst, and Raney Gilliland, right, the director of the Legislature's research staff, before the release of a new fiscal forecast, Friday, April 20, 2018, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. The new forecast boosts projected tax collections through June 2019 by a total of $540 million less Larry Campell, left, Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer's budget director, confers with J.G. Scott, center, the Legislature's top fiscal analyst, and Raney Gilliland, right, the director of the Legislature's research ... more TOPEKA, Kan.