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A professor sent an email instructing Chinese students at Duke to speak only English in certain campus buildings. An uproar and an apology followed.

"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law — and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," Attorney General William Barr said.

New research suggests allergies to sesame are comparably prevalent as those to some tree nuts. The findings come as the FDA weighs whether to require sesame to be listed as an allergen on food labels.

A young Guatemalan man and his son tried to get to the U.S. in June to claim asylum. Instead, the 9-year-old boy is alone at a facility in New York. The father was deported and is deeply distressed.

The candidates in Ohio's close and expensive U.S. Senate race agreed on some issues, but there were pointed jabs when they disagreed.

Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a U.S. president or vice president, is in Poland and Germany to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and address rising antisemitism around the world.

The U.S. settled for silver in the last Olympics, when Biles struggled with the "twisties." This year, the gymnasts said they wanted "redemption." It is Biles' eighth Olympic medal and fifth gold.

A three-day National Transportation Safety Board hearing on the deadliest U.S. aviation accident in decades dug into problems with altimeters, chopper routes and the busy Washington, D.C., airspace.

There is outrage in the U.K. over the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. Bodycam footage shows police handcuffing him as he lay dying. His killer falsely accused Nowak of racist abuse.

The CDC says 7 million people have Type 2 diabetes and don't know it. But a new analysis says that number's much lower. Screening efforts should focus on people at highest risk, the researchers say.