The best young spellers in the English language are set to compete at the Scripps National Spelling Bee, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The first bee was held in 1925, when the Louisville Courier-Journal invited other newspapers t...
International students pursuing degrees at Michigan public universities sought relief from detention and deportation during a federal court hearing on Tuesday, after their student immigration status was terminated this month, jeopardizing their lega...
Tulsi Gabbard -- a military veteran and honorary co-chair of President-elect Donald Trump's transition team -- has been chosen by Trump to be his director of national intelligence. Gabbardleft the Democratic Partyin 2022 after representi...
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BBC crime drama Happy Valley won best returning drama at the National TV awards, as its star Sarah Lancashire was honoured with two prizes. The actress won best drama performance and was also given this year's special recognition award, p...
The National Gallery will send some of its finest masterpieces around the UK for its 200th anniversary. Twelve famous artworks including Constable's The Hay Wain, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, and Renoir's The Umbrellas travel across the...
The Taliban in Afghanistan have appealed for international support, as the country deals with the aftermath of a devastating 6.1 magnitude earthquake. More than 1,000 people have been killed and at least 1,500 injured. Unknown numbers are...
Orchards are vanishing from the landscape with an area the size of the Isle of Wight lost since 1900, according to research carried out by the National Trust. The disappearance of more than half of orchards across England and Wal...
A look at the 15-year effort to make Martin Luther King Jr. Day a national holiday, and the pushback against it....
The stars of Line of Duty will go head-to-head for one of the main prizes at this year's National Television Awards. Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar and Martin Compston are among the five nominees for the best drama performance trop...
Last year was a turning point for the Oscar category which had for decades been known as best foreign language film. First came the name change. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided the word "foreign"...
The sequel to 2017's Wonder Woman has failed to get box office tills ringing, making just $38.5m (£29.1m) in the 39 countries where it opened last week. Around half that tally came from China, where Wonder Woman 1984 made $...
Spain has declared a national state of emergency and imposed a night-time curfew in an effort to help control a new spike in Covid-19 infections. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the curfew, between the hours of 23:00 and...
The control room for the Democratic National Convention is seen before the start of the convention Monday, Aug. 17, 2020, in Milwaukee. ...
Jeff Bezos has announced the formation of a "national team" that will aim to build the lander that will take astronauts back to the Moon in 2024. Bezos' space company Blue Origin has teamed up with aerospace giants Lockheed Martin,...
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British photographer Jill Welham has been announced as the overall winner of this year's International Garden Photographer of the Year Competition. The North Yorkshire photographer beat 19,000 entrants from more than 50 countries to scoop the top pr...
Amid reports thatnational parks are being damagedduring thegovernment shutdown, the nonprofit National Park Foundation is launching a dedicated fund to raise money tohelp those parksrecover. During the partial g...
The National Park Service plans to use money collected from entrance and usage fees in previous years to help pay for trash cleanup, restroom maintenance and increase law enforcement in the parks. Even though the Interior Department is ...