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Nation+Worldnewsfeed Winter:KirahJonescarriesasnowsledWednesdayinDanville,Kentuckyy.Snowand drizzle began falling early Wednesday across much of Kentucky and Tennessee, lead- ing school districts and some universities to cancel classes and issue travel warnings. KENTUCKY SNOW DAY CLAY JACKSON — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS U.S.stocksslumpedWednesday as the price of oil suffered its worst one-day drop since September, and the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell to its lowest level in almost two years. Investors are worried that low oil prices mean there's not that much demand for fuel. That would be a sign that growth in the global econ- omy is slowing down. Stocks in the U.S. started sharply lower follow- ing widespread selling overseas, and looked like they were headed for huge losses. At one point the Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 565 points. After a late recovery, the Dow closed down 249.28 points, or 1.6 percent, to 15,766.74. The S&P 500 index fell 22 points, or 1.2 per- cent, to 1,859.33. That is its lowest closing price since April 2014. The Nasdaq composite, which briefly turned positive in the after- noon, lost 5.26 points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,471.69. The Dow is the lowest it's been since August. —TheAssociatedPress FINANCIAL MARKET Stocksslideasoiltumbles, S&P lowest in almost 2 years Once again, Islamic militants stormed a school in northeastern Pakistan in a deadly attack that lasted for hours. And once again, the blood of students and teachers stained classrooms and hallways, raising questions about whether se- curity forces are able to protect the country's educational institutions from extremists. At least 20 people were killed and 23 were wounded Wednesday in the assault at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda before the four gunmen were slain and the military declared an end to the siege. Two teachers were among the dead, including a chemistry professor who was praised as a hero for shooting back at the at- tackers and allowing some students to escape. The university attack was grimly reminiscent of the Decem- ber 2014 massacre at an army pub- lic school in nearby Peshawar that killed 150, mostly children. A break- away faction of the Taliban took re- sponsibility. — The Associated Press PAKISTAN TERROR Deadly school attack raises questions on security Violent clashes between police and protesters erupted Wednes- day in Indian-controlled Kashmir, leaving a man dead and two others wounded, officials said. The protesters were angry that In- dian government forces killed a sus- pected rebel in a gunbattle Wednes- day after they had surrounded the village of Naina on a tip that anti-In- dia militants were hiding there, said police officer Nitish Kumar. Chanting pro-independence slo- gans, scores of youths hurled rocks at government forces during protests in two villages. Police tried to quell the protests by firing gunshots and tear gas into the air, but protesters torched an ar- mored police vehicle, Kumar said. Government forces then fired on the protesters, killing one man and wounding two others, according to witnesses. Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani confirmed that a civilian had been killed and said the two men were injured. — The Associated Press KASHMIR Deadly clashes erupt between India police and protesters Last year wasn't just the Earth's hottest year on record — it left a cen- tury of high temperature marks in the dust. The National Oceanic Atmo- spheric Administration and NASA announced Wednesday that 2015 was by far the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping. For the most part, scientists at the agencies and elsewhere blamed man-made global warming, with a boost from El Niño. NOAA said 2015's temperature was 58.62 degrees, passing 2014 by a record margin of 0.29 degrees. That's 1.62 degrees above the 20th- century average. NASA, which mea- sures differently, said 2015 was 0.23 degrees warmer than the record set in 2014 and 1.6 degrees above 20th century average. Because of the wide margin over 2014, NASA calculated that 2015 was a record with 94 percent certainty, more than double the certainty it had last year when announcing 2014 as a record. — The Associated Press WEATHER NOAA, NASA: 2015 Earth's record hottest by wide margin Singapore on Wednesday said it had arrested and deported 26 Ban- gladeshi construction workers for forming a religious study group that spread the ideology of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group. The workers were arrested in No- vember and detained without trial under the city-state's rigorous In- ternal Security Act, the Ministry of Home Affairs said. It said they held discreet weekly meetings to share jihadi-related ma- terials and discuss armed conflicts involving Muslims. It also said its members supported the teachings of U.S.-born radical Islamic cleric Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in September 2011 The Bangladeshis' work passes had been revoked, it said. A remaining Bangladeshi is cur- rently serving a jail sentence for at- tempting to leave Singapore illegally after hearing about the arrests of the others. — The Associated Press ASIA Singapore deports 26 Bangladeshis over idealogy Chinese state television has aired a confession made in deten- tion by a Swedish co-founder of a human rights group, who said he had trained and funded unlicensed lawyers in China to take on cases against the government "in clear vio- lation of the law." In a 10-minute segment aired late Tuesday and early Wednesday, state broadcaster CCTV detailed how Pe- ter Dahlin established an activist or- ganization in Hong Kong with the help of employees from the human rights-focused Fengrui Law Firm in Beijing, whose lawyers have been re- cently charged with subverting state power. Dahlin's group has called the con- fession "apparently forced" and re- jected accusations that it manufac- tured or escalated conflicts inside China. In the past year, China's gov- ernment under President Xi Jinping has aggressively cracked down on the country's increasingly assertive legal rights groups. — The Associated Press CHINA State TV airs a confession from detained Swede By Julie Pace The Associated Press SIOUX CITY, IOWA Ber- nie Sanders was halfway through his opening state- ment — a stern, 45-minute lecture on domestic pol- icy leavened with a dash of political pep talk — when he realized the crowd had missed one of his rare at- tempts at humor. "That was a joke!" he bel- lowed. Laughter briefly rip- pled through the audience as the Vermont senator re- turned to his statistic-rich pitch for increasing the fed- eral minimum wage to $15 per hour and breaking up big Wall Street banks. Sanders' down-to-busi- ness demeanor on the cam- paign trail belies the youth- ful enthusiasm that's ac- companied his unexpected rise in the Democratic race for president. With less than two weeks until voting be- gins, the 74-year-old social- ist could win both Iowa and New Hampshire, a once un- thinkable outcome in a pri- mary campaign that was supposed to be tailor-made for Hillary Clinton. "Today the inevitable candidate doesn't look quite so inevitable," Sand- ers told voters who braved icy roads and single-digit temperatures to see him speak Tuesday morning in Fort Dodge. Yet there's little light- ness once Sanders begins to speak — no amusing an- ecdote to open his remarks, save for a small quip about how Iowa's winter reminds him of his home state. Sand- ers leans into the lectern and his Brooklyn-accented voice quickly reaches a shout. He repeatedly jabs his index finger at the au- dience, and when he's ready to make a point of empha- sis, he lifts both arms into the air as if conducting an orchestra. No one would credit Sanders with the timing of a comic: His crack, about Wal-Mart being a benefi- ciary of the welfare state, came across as just another plank in his anti-corporate platform. Sanders, an indepen- dent who caucuses with Democrats on Capitol Hill, began his campaign with firm rules about what he was not willing to do to win the presidency. He's among the most vigorous critics of super PACs, polit- ical groups that can accept donations of any size, and frequently boasts about his campaign's reliance on small donations. He also vowed to avoid personal attacks on his rivals. While Sanders may be striking a chord with vot- ers seeking an outsider can- didate, he's also a practiced politician who is acutely aware of his standing in the Democratic race. Taking a page out of Re- publican front-runner Don- aldTrump'splaybook,Sand- ers has recently started opening his remarks with lengthy references to his improving poll numbers. He's particularly fixated on surveys showing he's more likely to beat Trump in the general election than would Clinton, underscoring his irritation with suggestions from within his own party that's he's unelectable. PRESIDENTIAL RACE Sanders taps youthful enthusiasm in rise with voters By Julie Pace The Associated Press DES MOINES, IOWA If the Republican Party is on the verge of an implosion, Sarah Palin may have been the one who lit the fuse. Palin's complicated rela- tionship with GOP leaders over the past eight years is a microcosm of the par- ty's broader struggles with its most restive members. What started with an em- brace by party leaders evolved into wary tolerance, followed by a potentially ir- reparable split. While she's hardly the conservative kingmaker she once was, Palin remains a favorite of the tea party in- surgency, and her endorse- ment of Donald Trump for the 2016 GOP nomination gives him an added boost of conservative, anti-estab- lishment credibility. "He's been going rogue left and right," Palin said Tuesday, with a beaming Trump standing by her side. "He's been able to tear the veil off this idea of the sys- tem." Mainstream Republi- cans have tried for the past several years to keep their system together by bring- ing lawmakers elected as disrupters into the fold rather than pushing them aside. It's a strategy that succeeded in winning the party the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, but it did little to achieve such conservative goals as over- turning President Barack Obama's health care law or blocking increases in the nation's debt ceiling. Now, the GOP system is cracking, leaving some in the establishment feeling they would be the outsid- ers in a party helmed by Trump — or by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a frequent tor- mentor of Republican lead- ers who is a strong con- tender for the nomination. "I thought I was a tradi- tional Republican conser- vative," says Bob Dole, the 1996 Republican presiden- tial nominee who repre- sented deep red Kansas in Congress for decades. Palin's endorsement of Trump is seen as a knock against Cruz, who has been on the rise in Iowa for sev- eral weeks. She campaigned for Cruz when he ran for the Senate in 2012, and he's said her support was instrumen- tal in his victory. For all of her firebrand conservatism, Palin owes her place on the national stage to the mainstream Republican Party. She was a little-known Alaska gover- nor when Sen. John McCain — seen by some Republi- cans as an embodiment of the party establishment — tapped her as his running mate for the 2008 election. Palin was an awkward fit as No. 2 on the ticket, but she built an enthusias- tic following with conser- vatives. She blended more neatly into the tea party movement that blossomed during the first years of Obama's presidency. POLITICS Palin's re-emergence underscores GOP internal divide with Tea Party MARY ALTAFFER — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, le , endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Iowa State University, on Tuesday in Ames, Iowa. 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