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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 2007, file photo, former President George H.W. Bush arrives at the 2007 Ronald Reagan Freedom Award gala dinner held in his honor in Beverly Hills, Calif. Bush has died at age 94. Family spokesman Jim McGrath says Bush died shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, about eight months after the death of his wife, Barbara Bush. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

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President George H.W. Bush to lie in state in Washington, D.C.

The former president’s body will arrive in Washington, D.C., today to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018, construction goes on at the site of a new Amazon building, where space will be provided for a Mary's Place Family Shelter, in downtown Seattle. Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos' plan to fund preschools in poor communities puts him in the company of America's richest people who have dedicated some of their wealth to education, a legacy that has long challenged the role of poverty and capitalism in philanthropy. (Elaine Thompson/AP)

Education

Bezos’ preschools come as rich get richer, more generous

From Jeff Bezos' free preschools to Andrew Carnegie's public libraries, education stands out as a favorite cause among America's wealthiest people.

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Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) protest against rising oil prices and living costs on the Champs Elysees in Paris, France, on December 1, 2018. Thousands of anti-government protesters are expected today on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, a week after a violent demonstration on the famed avenue was marked by burning barricades and rampant vandalism that President Emmanuel Macron compared to

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Macron tours damaged Arc de Triomphe after Paris hit by riot

Paris police said Sunday that 133 people had been injured and 412 had been arrested as protesters trashed the streets of the capital during a demonstration Saturday.

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China's President Xi Jinping, (center), and members of his official delegation, listen to President Donald Trump speak during their bilateral meeting at the G20 Summit, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Politics & Policy

U.S., China put brakes on trade dispute with cease-fire

"It's an incredible deal," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, adding, "if it happens it goes down as one of the largest deals ever made."

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Working visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Buenos Aires. G20 Summit. From left to right in the front row: British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the ceremony of joint photographing of all G20 participants. November 30, 2018. Argentina, Buenos Aires. (Photo by Dmitry Azarov/Kommersant/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Politics & Policy

G-20 agrees on trade, migration, U.S. goes own way on climate

Only 19 agreed to support the Paris accord on fighting climate change with the United States the lone holdout.

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Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, (left), receives the presidential sash as Porfirio Munoz Ledo, president of the Congress, (right), looks on during the inaugural ceremony at the National Congress in Mexico City, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018. (Eduardo Verdugo/AP Photo)

Politics & Policy

Mexico gets 1st leftist leader after 32 years of technocrats

Lopez Obrador sees his inauguration as a historic "fourth transformation" of Mexico.

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Former presidents, (from left), George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Politics & Policy

World leaders respond to passing of former President George H.W. Bush

Former President George H.W. Bush has died at the age of 94.

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This undated photo provided by the Pentagon's Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency shows Lawrence Dickson, a New York pilot killed during World War II. Dickson is first of the 27 Tuskegee Airmen still listed as missing in action whose remains the Pentagon says they have identified through DNA samples provided by his daughter in New Jersey. Dickson was a 24-year-old captain in the 100th Fighter Squadron when his P-51 fighter plane was seen crashing along the Italy-Austria border during a mission on Dec. 23, 1944. Searches for the crash site were unsuccessful until 2012. (Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency via AP)

Science

Pentagon IDs remains of Tuskegee Airman killed in WWII

Sixty-six Tuskegee Airmen died in combat, including 27 who were listed as MIA. Dickson was the first to be identified.

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Courts & Law

Pennsylvania state lawmaker gets probation in bribery case

Democratic Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 23 months of probation and ordered to repay the money to the state attorney general's office.

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