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The head of the NTSB is voicing strong opposition to provisions in the defense policy bill. The NTSB says the House bill ...

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Local organizers had planned to include the June 26 game with Seattle's Pride celebrations. Then, FIFA announced the match ...

Just off a quiet road in Beulah, tucked among the trees, sits the folk art of Dewey Blocksma. His own story encompasses the ...

The top prize went to Nokomis Everstory, a startup that preserves Native storytelling traditions with modern technology.

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In the predawn darkness, a single bright light rising in the east has captured human imagination for millennia. In 1599, the Lutheran pastor Philippe Nicolai shaped that image into his chorale “How ...

How an obscure term used in anthropology leaped from the pages of academia into the Chinese meme world and then became part of Chinese government policymaking.

The Trump administration's changes to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services are taking an axe to the agency's traditional mission of ensuring people lawfully immigrate and stay in the U.S.

Anthony Nel, of Texas, became a U.S. citizen as a teen. But a flaw in a Trump administration citizenship tool flagged him as a potential noncitizen, which led to his voter registration being canceled.

The fighters led by the CIA found themselves spiraling into despair because of what they saw as bureaucratic neglect and ...