Bismarck State College is going through a period of considerable flux, adapting to major changes with how higher education is delivered due to the coronavirus pandemic while also navigating a...
July 4, 2020
A preservation group plans to add trails at Springer's Point, a tract of land in Ocracoke where Blackbeard partied with other pirates on rum and roasted pig. The 124-acre property...
July 4, 2020
A preservation group plans to add trails at Springer's Point, a tract of land in Ocracoke where Blackbeard partied with other pirates on rum and roasted pig. The 124-acre property...
July 4, 2020
As an eighth-grader in 2017, South Chicago resident Randy Pierre boasted the grades and test scores to get into some of Chicago's top high schools. His first choice was Whitney...
July 4, 2020
As an eighth-grader in 2017, South Chicago resident Randy Pierre boasted the grades and test scores to get into some of Chicago's top high schools. His first choice was Whitney...
July 4, 2020
On an average day, President Donald Trump sends about 14 posts to the 28 million Facebook followers of his campaign account. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, delivers about half that...
July 4, 2020
On an average day, President Donald Trump sends about 14 posts to the 28 million Facebook followers of his campaign account. His Democratic rival, Joe Biden, delivers about half that...
July 4, 2020
It began with a few texts, a flyer and a hashtag: #WeMatterMontgomery. It ended with hundreds of people gathered downtown under the searing June sun, with as equal of a...
July 4, 2020
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea has reported 63 new cases of the coronavirus, continuing a weekslong resurgence as new clusters pop up in various parts of the country. The...
July 3, 2020
Travel was clearly a thing of the past for many Floridians in March. A year-over-year analysis showed a 47.5% decline in travel on Florida's roads, both rural and urban. Traffic...
July 3, 2020
As Texas began mandating face coverings Friday on the orders of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, his party charged ahead with plans for a massive convention this month in Houston, magnifying...
July 3, 2020
The bad-faith tactics employed by two Australian reporters on separate newspapers that were designed to smear the climate dissenter shows the environmental press is little more than the provisional wing...
July 3, 2020
Covid-19 quarantine has exposed youngsters to severe abuse, neglect and isolation. As horrifying reports start to emerge, we need to do better to help protect society's most vulnerable. Despite the...
July 3, 2020
To expand its “maximum pressure” sanctions campaign targeting Iranian oil and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Command, the US has a warrant to seize the cargo of four tankers heading to...
July 3, 2020
Kansas reported another big increase in confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, capping its worst two-week spike since the pandemic began and coming as a statewide mask mandate from the governor took...
July 3, 2020
Tampa Bay Rays ace Blake Snell reported for work, after all. The 27-year-old Snell made headlines in May when he said he opposed the idea of players taking further pay...
July 3, 2020
EDITOR'S NOTE: Tony Siegle started his big league career as a scoreboard operator at the Astrodome in 1965. He went on to work in the baseball operations departments for Milwaukee,...
July 3, 2020
The purists can relax: Roger Penske did not remove troughs from the men's bathrooms at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He replaced them, of course, with the shiniest, sleekest basins on the...
July 3, 2020
Biden's supporters are manipulating the polls and planning to cheat on mail-in ballots and use other dirty tricks to seize victory. These are perilous times in America – so will...
July 3, 2020
A Nigerian national appeared in federal court in Chicago Friday accused of orchestrating an international cyber fraud scheme that federal prosecutors say defrauded U.S. businesses in six states out of...
July 3, 2020
A U.S. judge will not stop Hawaii from enforcing a quarantine on arriving travelers, saying in a ruling that the emergency mandate is reasonable during the public health crisis caused...
July 3, 2020
This was supposed to be a festive weekend for Zoo Miami but Florida's skyrocketing coronavirus cases and mounting death toll has meant some fast changes have had to be implemented....
July 3, 2020
Even as Washington designated the Chinese media as a hostile foreign agent, its own propaganda agency was funneling money to the Hong Kong protesters. In a fitting twist, this was...
July 3, 2020
While accusing Russia, without proof, of paying the Taliban to kill American soldiers, US politicians are conveniently ignoring facts about who really armed and financed terrorist groups in Afghanistan. The...
July 3, 2020
An effigy of an ungulate was set on fire in Portland, Oregon, and the rendering of Hans Christian Andersen's creation in Copenhagen was dubbed a “racist fish,” in the latest...
July 3, 2020
Homayoun Dariyani was training servers and cooks for his soon-to-open gourmet hamburger grill in March when California abruptly shut down dine-in restaurants to slow the spread of the coronavirus. After...
July 3, 2020
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social...
July 3, 2020
The remote worker of the future has been revealed. She's called Susan and she's not a pretty sight – a warning that we shouldn't be seduced by the benefits of...
July 3, 2020
For many Americans, the Fourth of July will be more intimate this year. It also could be riskier. Saturday will be unlike any Independence Day in recent memory. From Atlanta...
July 3, 2020
A major global study of coronavirus DNA sequences has confirmed that a mutant strain known as Spike D614G is far more contagious than previous strains, but no more lethal. The...
July 3, 2020
It was a terrifying bank robbery: Demanding cash in a handwritten note, a man waved a gun, threatened to kill a teller's family, ordered employees and customers onto the floor...
July 3, 2020
An online video and messages purportedly claiming responsibility for a fire that analysts say damaged a centrifuge assembly plant at Iran's underground Natanz nuclear site deepened the mystery Friday around...
July 3, 2020
The Washington Redskins are undergoing a “thorough review” of their nickname. The team said Friday it has been talking to the NFL for weeks about the subject. In a statement,...
July 3, 2020
The CEO of New Mexico's commercial spacecraft launch facility has been placed on administrative leave, but state officials aren't saying why. New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Alicia Keyes, who chairs...
July 3, 2020
The Washington state Supreme Court has ruled that the Yakama Nation can move forward with its lawsuit to halt the expansion of a gravel mining project that they say could...
July 3, 2020
Peace seems to have exceedingly, ridiculously, laughably bad timing, this latest time in Afghanistan, says Lee Camp. This article was originally published by Consortium News. This is not a column...
July 3, 2020
The standards are poor at the Bank of England these days, I don't know why anyone would want to do business with them. George Galloway gives British banking, and justice,...
July 3, 2020
The U.S. headed into the Fourth of July weekend with many parades and fireworks displays canceled, beaches and bars closed, and health authorities warning that this will be a crucial...
July 3, 2020
German lawmakers have finalized the country's long-awaited phase-out of coal as an energy source, backing a plan that environmental groups say isn't ambitious enough and free marketeers criticize as a...
July 3, 2020
A woman walking on Interstate 635 in Kansas City, Kansas, was hit by a vehicle and killed early Friday morning, authorities there said. The woman was walking on the northbound...
