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Dozens of people have been charged in a scam aimed at getting children of the rich and famous into elite colleges. The scam involved cheating on entrance exams and fake athletic credentials.

The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.

The new documentary “Love Wins Over Hate” features a series of honest and thought-provoking interviews with former white supremacists, and others who held extreme views but have since renounced them. It attempts to get to the heart of why people hate, and sometimes take on extremist ideologies like white supremacy. And what it takes to escape that world, and in some cases go on to work to help others escape. We talk with its producer and director, Susan Polis Schutz.

The Zika outbreak is spreading to Southeast Asia. More than 150 people have contracted the virus in Singapore.

Details are emerging from the historic floods that devastated communities in southern Louisiana. At least 11 people have been reported dead, at least 40,000 homes were affected, and some 30,000 people were rescued.

House Republicans put forth a proposal to fund the government that includes $30 million for lawmaker security, as Congress grapples with increasing political violence.

New Yorker writer Alexis Okeowo wanted to get past standard journalistic narratives of war and tragedy and show people as flawed, complicated individuals in her new book, A Moonless, Starless Sky.

Scholars Tressie McMillan Cottom and Eddie Glaude reflect on the struggle for civil rights and what it means to celebrate King on the same day that President Donald Trump is sworn into office.

City officials have named the 12 people killed in a shooting in Virginia Beach, Va., Friday.

Trump tweeted Wednesday that the U.S. government will ban transgender people from serving in the military, citing "tremendous medical costs and disruption."