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Police in Newport News, Va., say they're in "unprecedented" territory following last week's shooting at an elementary school that left one teacher wounded and a six-year-old boy in custody.

Mexico says it has deployed thousands of National Guard forces along its northern border with the U.S. and 6,000 along the southern border with Guatemala. It says they are there to stop migrants.

Congress is racing to pass a funding measure to avert a government shutdown.

Families and friends tried their best to put their pain aside to honor tradition and celebrate the lives of loved ones who have gone – and the lives that were taken by the gunman.

Momentum for sentencing reform grows as leaders of the House Judiciary Committee introduce a bipartisan bill. But rising violence in some big cities could complicate the legislative forecast.

In the middle of the 20th century, more than 6 million African Americans left behind everything they knew in the South and headed to the North, Midwest and West Coast. That "Great Migration" is the subject of a new book by Isabel Wilkerson, called The Warmth of Other Suns..

The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 10,000 points Wednesday, fueled by better-than-expected retail sales numbers and big profits at JP Morgan Chase. The bank reported third-quarter earnings of $3.6 billion, but warned that it still expects more problems with consumer loans.

The Labor Department has said the nation's unemployment rate rose to 6.5 percent in October, its highest rate in 14 years. The report said 240,000 jobs were lost, worse than expected. This year, 1.2 million jobs have been lost.

The justices struggled to decide whether to give a thumbs up or thumbs down to the multi-billion dollar Purdue Pharma bankruptcy deal--a deal meant to compensate victims of OxyContin.

In a historic ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court said that Donald Trump is ineligible to become president again after engaging in insurrection. The decision bars him from the state's primary ballot.