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The president refused to admit any culpability in the results, but in a rare move, he acknowledged he made a mistake in not visiting Arlington Cemetery on Veterans Day.

Nearly two weeks after Election Day, a statewide recount showed that Republican Gov. Rick Scott continued to hold the lead in the Senate race against incumbent Democrat Bill Nelson.

“Somebody with a technical background might think in a little bit different than the way, for instance, that a lawyer would think,” says Chrissy Houlahan, a new lawmaker with a STEM background.

One minute, Seamus Hughes was reading the book Dragons Love Tacos to his son. The next minute, he stumbled on what could be one of the most closely guarded secrets within the U.S. government.

Now that wildfires are a year-round problem in California, officials are adding emotional support to the services they provide to firefighters in the field.

The president traveled to areas impacted by the fires in California, including the town of Paradise, which was virtually destroyed.

News outlets had reported that the White House was looking to placate Turkey to ease pressure on the Saudis, after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

The submarine had 44 crew members when it lost contact with Argentina’s military. Its disappearance has prompted protests by family members of those on board.

After more than a year of negotiations, Prime Minister Theresa May presented a Brexit withdrawal agreement that seemed to unite British politicians across the spectrum in their hatred for it.

The CIA found “nothing of this scale, an operation like this, could possibly have happened without the crown prince knowing about it and authorizing it,” The Washington Post‘s Shane Harris told NPR.

Most children moving to the U.S. from Central America come without adults, hoping to join parents or family already living in the U.S. To succeed, psychologists say, these families need support.

When photographer Simone Francescangeli took pictures of the miners, he was struck by the dangerous environment — and the number of children he saw working in the mines.

The president told reporters that he wrote the answers to questions from the special counsel and that he did so “very easily.” He also said he suspected some were designed to be a “perjury trap.”

Officials are still counting ballots from the midterm elections in several states — in part because of the signature verification process. But signatures change over time, especially young people’s.

Ten times a day, on average, Facebook’s AI-driven self-harm detection system alerts authorities to people who may be about to hurt themselves.

For every person still unaccounted for, there are family members and friends desperately trying to find them.

Also in our weekly roundup: Peer pressure can be used to reduce sexual violence in schools; more students are using Pell Grants over the summer.

The Army opened special operations jobs to women in 2016 but only one has passed the first stage, a 24-day program designed to push soldiers to the brink of mental and physical exhaustion.

The giant panda named Bei Bei at Smithsonian’s National Zoo somersaults down a snow-covered hill. He climbs trees and dangles from branches. He luxuriates on a snow-dusted bed of bamboo.

The National Transportation Safety Board says a natural gas company engineer made a major mistake in developing construction plans, resulting in a disastrous chain reaction.

The state’s previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery, in that order.

Over 45 tons of meat could potentially harbor the food-borne illness, the USDA said. More recalls from other companies could follow, as the government tracks a widespread outbreak of the same strain.

Republican Brian Kemp will be the next governor of Georgia, with Democrat Stacey Abrams bowing out Friday afternoon. She promised a “major federal lawsuit” against the state over voting practices.

The justices will hear arguments over whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross can be questioned under oath for the lawsuits over the controversial citizenship question he added to the 2020 census.

“You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong with a lace front,” said a defense attorney whose client was later found not guilty of rape.

“I don’t feel comfortable being a Republican anymore,” conservative attorney George Conway, who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said in a new podcast interview.

For those who have survived the deadly fires in Northern and Southern California, the escape was just the beginning. Now they face the daunting task of rebuilding the lives they made.

In the first legal battle between President Trump and the news media, a federal judge sided with CNN and ordered the White House to immediately restore Jim Acosta’s press pass.

Money is going a lot of different ways in the car industry. Experts say companies are investing in new technology simply because they don’t want to be left behind.

Among the significant changes is that schools could make it harder to prove allegations. Instead of only a “preponderance of the evidence,” schools could demand “clear and convincing evidence.”