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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles officials are defending their decision to shut down the nation's second-largest school district today after a school board member received a threat by e-mail. The move has been criticized as an overreaction by officials in New York, who say they also received a threat that they dismissed. The police chief in Los Angeles says it's "very easy in hindsight" to criticize the action.
PARIS (AP) — A French judicial official and French police say a 29-year-old man has been arrested and is being held for questioning about the deadly Nov. 13 attacks in Paris. The man was arrested this morning at his home in an eastern suburb of Paris. Officials are offering no details about his suspected link to the attacks that killed 130 people. The man can be held for questioning for up to six days before being charged or freed.
MOSCOW (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart say a group of foreign ministers will meet at the United Nations on Friday to discuss a political transition in Syria. The two diplomats came out of a meeting at the Kremlin today with President Vladimir Putin (POO'-tihn) that was designed to try to narrow gaps in the American and Russian approaches to the crisis in Syria.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. says it is close to an agreement with Cuba on restoring regularly scheduled, commercial flights between the countries. American and Cuban officials are discussing the matter in Washington this week. The Obama administration has been trying to finish the aviation part of U.S.-Cuba normalization talks before the end of the year.
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is extending the deployment of the National Guard troops at the border with Mexico due to a spike in the number of unaccompanied minors crossing into the state. Abbott, a Republican, criticized federal officials today in the wake of U.S. Border Patrol figures that show more than 10,000 unaccompanied children crossing into the U.S. in October and November. That is double the number of crossings in the same two months last year.
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