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Less than 24 hours before the super-fancy Oscar ceremony, it was jeans-and-sneakers day at the Dolby Theatre.Click to Continue »

The Fairfax County, Virginia, prosecutor is resuming his investigation into the Fairfax police department’s shooting of John Geer in 2013, obtaining the documents that police refused to give him 15…Click to Continue »

Activists, actors and politicians gathered in New York City to remember civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the Harlem site where he was killed 50 years ago.Click to Continue »

After Peter Theo Curtis, an American journalist, was kidnapped in Syria in October 2012 and later turned over to al-Qaida’s affiliate in the country, his family traveled to Washington. During…Click to Continue »

Turkey launched an overnight military operation into neighboring Syria to evacuate troops guarding an Ottoman tomb and to move the crypt to a new location, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said…Click to Continue »

Touted as one of the first interstate highways, a 200-mile span of Interstate 70 between suburban St. Louis and Kansas City stands as a prime example of the challenges facing…Click to Continue »

A Russian newspaper claims to have an official government strategy document outlining the invasion of Ukraine that was prepared weeks before the Ukrainian government collapsed last year.Click to Continue »

If Neil Patrick Harris’ nerves are running high as a first-time host of the Academy Awards on Sunday, he need look no further than the night’s nominees for a friendly…Click to Continue »

The latest in a seemingly unending parade of snowstorms moved over the East Coast on Saturday, dropping a wintry mix as far south as northern Georgia and potentially causing more…Click to Continue »

Emily Berglund, is an associate professor of civil, construction, and environmental engineering at N.C. State, explains how we can make the most of one of our nation’s most prized natural…Click to Continue »