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BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military command is calling on rebels to lay down their weapons and evacuate the contested city of Aleppo. In a statement carried on state news today, the military command says government forces would guarantee the gunmen safe passage out of the city's opposition-held eastern neighborhoods. The offer comes as pro-government forces make gains around the east, tightening their siege of the estimated 275,000 people trapped inside.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump are offering different views of a report that Trump might have used tax laws to avoid paying federal income taxes for years. Trump's supporters have taken to the Sunday talk shows to say that if he did use the laws to his advantage, he was wise to do so. Democrats say the report pokes holes in Trump's claim to be a champion for working, tax-paying Americans. The New York Times reports that Trump declared a $916 million loss in federal income in 1995, which could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for up to 18 years.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police say two students at North Carolina A&T State University have been killed in a shooting at a large party. It happened early today near the Greensboro campus. Police say the two were pronounced dead at a hospital.
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Four teenagers from the same Long Island, New York high school have been found dead in the past month. And while police suspect all are related to gang violence, they are releasing few details. The case in Brentwood began with the discoveries of the beaten bodies of two girls on successive days. Days later, police found the skeletal remains of two boys. Some students are afraid to walk alone, and school administrators are warning students not to wear clothing that could risk offending street thugs.
ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — A one-room, 19th-Century schoolhouse that once served black children in northern Virginia's Loudoun County has been defaced with references to "white power" and Nazi swastikas. The Washington Post reports that the former Ashburn Colored School building was spray-painted with the racist graffiti on Friday evening. Students with the Loudoun School for the Gifted are working to restore the building so that it can be opened to the public as a museum.
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