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JPMorgan Chase has agreed to pay regulators more than $900 million in fines over last year's London Whale trading fiasco. A handful of rogue traders at the bank lost more than $6 billion in a bad derivatives trading strategy. The traders then concealed the losses from senior executives for weeks. JPMorgan also formally admitted wrongdoing in the settlement with four different regulators.

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.

A key part of the NBA All Star Weekend is the Slam Dunk Contest. We look at how both pro basketball and dunking have evolved and why fans can't get enough of it.

The University of North Texas is among the last systems in the state to make such a statement, which was prompted by Gov. Greg Abbott’s Feb. 6 memo to state agencies warning that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are illegal in hiring.

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.

Thousands of federal inmates are being released because of a change in the way the U.S. government sentences drug criminals, but few are going straight from prison to freedom.

Under House Bill 1, the chamber’s spending plan, $5 billion would be allocated to increase funding for public and charter schools. That would raise the basic allotment by $50, to $6,210.

Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a multitude of legal challenges. What's the status of those investigations?