Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and ...

The NCHSAA also pushed back when basketball seeds will be set for playoffs from Saturday to Sunday. The change is aimed to ...

Burke County Public Schools will not have school on Wednesday. Due to the forecast for winter weather and possible snow, Wednesday, Feb. 19, will be a snow day for students, Burke County Public ...

A new study links a particular gene to the ancient origins of spoken language, proposing that a protein variant found only in humans may have helped us communicate in a novel way.

The Trump administration gave America's schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money.

Southwest Airlines said Monday it will cut 15% of its corporate workforce, or 1,750 people — the first mass layoffs in the ...

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Pinpointing the genesis of “waste, fraud and abuse” as political rhetoric is difficult. But the concept is older than the ...

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