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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.
It has never been more difficult to keep up with national politics. Between ongoing investigations, tweets, tensions with foreign powers, and disputes over immigration, taxes and health care policy, it is easy to lose sight of what matters in our daily lives: decisions that impact our quality of life and paychecks.
April 21, 2008 - ANCHORAGE - Old billing records show ties between convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and U.S. Rep. Don Young, a newspaper reported Sunday.
Legislation to fund the U.S. Coast Guard includes a rider that would protect a small island in exchange for opening up a plot of tideland on Kodiak Island to development.
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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.
The Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve has been set aside for public enjoyment since 1932. Every Democrat in the Colorado Senate has signed a letter opposing the Trump administration's proposal to sell off public land for energy development near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve.
A Utah man will serve five years and three months in federal prison after he robbed three banks in three states last fall, officials said. Gregory Jerome Brown, of Bountiful, was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.
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.
An NTSB official studies the engine that failed on a Southwest Airlines jet during a flight from New York to Dallas, killing one passenger on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. An NTSB official studies the engine that failed on a Southwest Airlines jet during a flight from New York to Dallas, killing one passenger on Tuesday, April 17, 2018.
The low sound of taps drifted from St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Dover Plains, N.Y., on Saturday, honoring a man who gave 30 years to the U.S. Coast Guard and 20 more to the state of Connecticut before he and his adoptive daughter were slain in nearby New Milford last week.
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.