A top Russian official is accusing the Ukrainian government of undermining Donald Trump's presidential campaign by trashing him on social media and disseminating dirt on one of his close associates. A spokeswoman for Russia's Foreign Ministry on Thursday contended that the Ukrainian government over the summer damaged Trump's campaign by implicating his then-campaign chief Paul Manafort in a corruption scandal involving a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party funded by oligarchs. “Ukraine seriously complicated the work of Trump's election campaign headquarters by planting information...
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Chicago Public Schools wants to close three schools that the district says have no students enrolled this year. Public hearings are scheduled for the proposed closings before a school board vote in February. Two of the schools the district is proposing to close, Career Academy at 180 N. Wabash...
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University Health Services at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is telling people to get the second dose of the meningitis vaccine, but there are new questions about who will cover the costs.
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Howard County public school officials have notified parents of Oakland Mills High School students of what they called a "racially offensive and hurtful post" made by a student on social media. John White, county schools spokesman, said via email Thursday that a 16-year-old student at the Columbia...
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The governor's plan to raise teachers' salaries by 20 percent is meeting with resistance from critics who say it is unrealistic. Read more ...
A Minnesota woman suspected of killing her husband and then a woman in southwest Florida was captured Thursday night at a South Texas resort. A U.S. Marshals Service statement... Read more ...
A 54-year-old man with no criminal record in Texas is now charged with trying to have four people killed, allegedly all because his ex-girlfriend rejected him. Read more ...
The brother of Stephon Clark, who was shot and killed by Sacramento police, was arrested Thursday morning on a felony threat charge, according to Sacramento County Jail records. Read more ...
Officials confirmed the deputies died as a result of gunshot wounds but the details surrounding the incident haven't been made readily available. Read more ...
Authorities said the disgraced cyclist had defrauded his sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service, out of millions. He faced $100 million in possible penalties - but this settlement... Read more ...
Police in Louisiana say a woman came home to discover a naked stranger in her tub, eating her Cheetos while taking a bath. Read more ...
Gil Santos, the longtime radio play-by-play announcer for the New England Patriots, died Thursday. He was 78. Read more ...
A 54-year-old man with no criminal record in Texas is now charged with trying to have four people killed, allegedly all because his ex-girlfriend rejected him. Read more ...
The Justice Department's inspector general has sent a criminal referral regarding former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington. Read more ...