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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin addressed a shaky world economic market following Monday’s staggering drop in American stock value. Despite the largest ever single-day loss in terms of total points and the steepest overall dip since 2011, he pointed to evidence he presented as proof of a strong economy. “I’m not overly concerned about the market volatility,” he said Tuesday in a statement to legislators.

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews inexplicably referred to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as an “ethnic sort of person” during a “Hardball” segment Monday night.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan accused key Clinton allies of helping craft a second anti-Trump dossier and accused them of “rigging the game,” Tuesday on “Fox & Friends.” Jordan was asked about a possible second dossier and said Clinton operatives Sidney Blumenthal and Cody Shearer had paid Christopher Steele to do opposition research, but then told Steele which specific details to include.

A transgender man has filed a complaint against an 88-year-old New York University psychology professor for not using the preferred pronouns when referring to transgender students. August Enzer, a junior at NYU, wants Professor Edgar Coons, who has taught at the college since 1965, to be disciplined and for the resolution to be made public, the New York Post reported Saturday. Enzer told NYU's student newspaper, the Washington Square News, that Coons made "transphobic" comments and used the term "abnormalities" while discussing gender and sexuality during an Introduction to Psychology course freshman year. Coons has denied Enzer's allegations.

An elementary school in New York has sparked a heated debate over its decision to cancel its traditional father-daughter dance, ostensibly in compliance with U.S. Department of Education mandates that went into effect last year. According to the New York Post, the policy update requires schools to forego “gender-based” events and programs unless they provide a proven educational benefit. Staten Island’s PS 65 has decided to err on the side of caution by abruptly cancelling the annual dance set for later this week.

Full title: Holy Cross student newspaper changes its name to 'The Spire' ahead of Board of Trustees decision about school's moniker 'The Crusader' A day before the College of the Holy Cross Board of Trustees is expected to decide whether or not to keep "The Crusader" as the school's moniker and mascot, the student newspaper has announced a change in the 93-year-old publication's name. The student newspaper will now publish under the name "The Spire," students wrote in a statement issued Friday. "The Spire" pays homage to the distinctive spires of Fenwick Hall, Holy Cross' main building and oldest structure,...

An unusually honest sign sits in front of a home on the market in British Columbia, Canada. “Home for sale by owner because neighbor is an a--hole,” the sign reads. According to homeowner Kane Blake, harassment from the neighbor is the only reason his family is moving.

Full title: After Obama-Farrakhan Photo Bombshell, New Footage Emerges Of Democrats Hugging Nation Of Islam Leader Images of multiple congressional Democrats hugging, embracing and coordinating with Louis Farrakhan have surfaced, just shortly after a never-before-seen, 2005 photo of Barack Obama and Louis Farrakhan was released to the public. The Obama picture was kept a secret by the photographer who took it because he believed it would hurt the future president’s “political career.”

Chicagoans in droves are venting their displeasure with former President Barack Obama’s planned library, calling it an “ugly waste of taxpayer resources” and a “dangerous precedent” for the preservation of historic public parklands. Recent letters to the editor published in the Chicago Tribune overwhelmingly have panned the Obama Presidential Center, which will consume nearly 20 acres from historic Jackson Park and cost taxpayers $100 million in renovations to the surrounding area.

Following a series of sexual misconduct allegations against casino mogul Steve Wynn this week, Politico reported Saturday that he has resigned from his position as finance chairman for the Republican National Committee. President Donald Trump personally selected Wynn for the senior position within the party.

Full title: America First: European CEOs Go One By One To Tell Trump They Are Investing Billions Back In The US President Donald J. Trump hosted a dinner with European business leaders and CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Thursday evening. Trump has been making the rounds in Davos, holding bilateral meetings with other world leaders and conducting business roundtables. Trump met with various business leaders in shadow of the recent economic boom in America. In a stunning moment, one by one, European titans of industry from companies like Adidas, Siemens and Bayer went around the table...

Key details of President Trump’s potential $1 trillion infrastructure plan were published on the news website Axios on Monday. The draft, which a White House spokesperson would not comment on, outlines details on how a majority of the money could be spent.

As disgraced comedian Bill Cosby counts down the days to his retrial on charges related to sexual assault, he reportedly took to the stage in a rare performance for a friendly crowd in Philadelphia. According to the Associated Press, Cosby appeared at a jazz club in his hometown Monday for a live performance, which included riffs with the audience. After asking the son of one band member whether he knew who the comedian was, Cosby shot back with a self-deprecating line.

Frustrated MS-13 gang leaders feeling the pressure from the Trump administration’s crackdown are looking to send “younger, more violent offenders” to the United States to take over the role of being enforcers, officials say. The revelations were made Thursday during a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on fighting international criminal organizations, where officials discussed the arrests and imprisonment of MS-13 members and leadership over the last year.

Las Vegas sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that there is an ongoing FBI case against an “individual of federal interest” other than Stephen Paddock or his girlfriend Marilou Danley. Paddock opened fire on a country music festival on Oct. 1, 2017, from a room in the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, killing 58 people and injuring 546.

After fielding hundreds of pitches from cities across the U.S., Amazon has whittled the list of prospective homes for its second headquarters down to a relatively short 20. According to a statement this week by the online retail giant, the $5 billion project known as HQ2 will be located in one of the following regions:

Nearly a year after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a Harvard University professor says 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could still become commander in chief. Lawrence Lessig, the Roy L. Furman professor of law and leadership at Harvard Law School, penned an essay for Medium in October outlining a series of hypothetical scenarios that could take place should the ongoing probe find that the Trump campaign actually conspired with Russia to influence the results of the election. If Trump did conspire with Russia, the president “should resign, or, if he doesn’t, he should be impeached,” Lessig wrote in his essay. Vice...

In this latest effort, they recruited Yale psychiatry professor Bandy Lee to declare Trump unfit. We’ve been following the story closely: Unable to Defeat Trump at the Polls, Dems Enlist Yale Psych Prof to Diagnose Him Mentally Unfit Psychiatrists Who Targeted Trump Face Backlash White House physician Dr. Ronny Jackson just gave Trump a clean bill of physical and mental health but Democrats are not letting go of the mental health attack because they’ve got nothing else.

Chinese technology conglomerate Alibaba has recently tested a new artificial intelligence network that outperformed humans in reading and comprehending text. The robot was asked each of the 100,000 questions comprising the comprehension test, according to Bloomberg. Its 82.44 score narrowly bested the 83.304 achieved by human subjects.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Friday she will not attend President Trump’s first State of the Union address following his vulgar remarks aimed at Haiti, El Salvador and African nations. “Why would I take my time to go and sit and listen to a liar?” Waters said on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.” “Someone who lies in the face of facts, someone who can change their tune day in and day out. What does he have to say that I would be interested in?"