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An Indiana school superintendent who was arrested for allegedly using her own health insurance to purchase medicine for a sick, uninsured student, has resigned. Casey Smitherman submitted her resignation to the Elwood School Board on Friday after being charged last month with insurance fraud, identity theft and official misconduct over the incident, Indianapolis station WISH-TV reported. […]

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Friday officially canceled a congressional delegation trip to Afghanistan after President Donald Trump leaked her travel plans to retaliate against her request to postpone his State of the Union address until after the government shutdown. “After President Trump revoked the use of military aircraft to travel to Afghanistan, the […]

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A director of graduate studies at Duke University has stepped down from her role after she sent an email telling students not to speak Chinese, suggesting that it is “impolite” and could have “unintended consequences.” Megan Neely, of the Duke School of Medicine’s biostatistics master’s program, sent the email to first- and second-year graduate students […]

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“Late Night” host Seth Meyers thinks he knows what President Donald Trump has been doing during the ongoing partial government shutdown. And it relates to the president’s recent repeated ramblings about wheels being older than walls. (They’re not, by the way). Check out the clip, which aired Wednesday, above. RELATED COVERAGE George Conway's Latest Attack […]

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