Pupils from a Catholic boys school in Kentucky could face disciplinary action after they were filmed surrounding and taunting a group of Native American protesters in Washington DC on Saturday. The Diocese of Covington in a statement on Saturday issued an apology for the behaviour of the students from Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, who were filmed attending Saturday’s anti-abortion Right to Life march in Washington—which coincided with the Indigenous Peoples March.

A cultural reckoning remains distant as both sides quarrel in courts, college campuses and town squares over Confederate symbols in public spaces.

The news industry doesn’t look like it did a decade ago. Poynter interviewed 15 journalists from across the United States to hear their experiences during the last 10 years.

A day after Turkish prosecutors issued an international warrant for his arrest, NBA star Enes Kanter skipped a game in London, citing fears he could be killed by the Turkish government.

Rahaf Mohammed, the Saudi teen who was granted asylum in Canada last weekend, has posted photos of herself enjoying a glass of wine, a cigarette, and bacon on Snapchat. Ms Mohammed, 18, was granted asylum after fleeing Saudi Arabia, where she feared being killed after being disowned by her family for not conforming to the country's strict rules.

When a BuzzFeed reporter first sought comment on the news outlet’s explosive report that President Trump had directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, the spokesman for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III treated the request as he would almost any other story. The reporter informed Mueller’s spokesman, Peter Carr, that he and a colleague had “a story coming stating that Michael Cohen was directed by President Trump himself to lie to Congress about his negotiations related to the Trump Moscow project,” according to copies of their emails...

BuzzFeed News’s apparently mistaken story about Michael Cohen and President Trump is the highest-profile misstep yet for a news organization during a period of heightened and intense scrutiny of the press, as the special counsel’s office issued a thorough rebuke of the website’s story published Thursday. Reporters at the Guardian, CNN, McClatchy News and other outlets have published disputed, suspect or uncorroborated stories about Trump and the investigation swirling around him since special counsel Robert S. Mueller III began his probe 21 months ago.

A potential reconciliation between CBS and Viacom has produced a tumultuous “Will They or Won’t They” narrative over the past few years. But at this point, industry analyst Michael Nathanson believes the merger is a “foregone conclusion.” MoffettNathanson said in a research report that CBS’ stock is being negatively impacted by both the loss of CEO Les Moonves and Viacom deal overhang. But by recombining CBS and Viacom, both companies could address several potential problems.

Donald Trump has again confused weather with climate change, suggesting the US would benefit from “a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now” amid forecasts of snow and cold conditions. Little more than two months since a similarly misleading conflation, the president tweeted: “Be careful and try staying in your house. Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold.

The forthcoming Ford Mustang-inspired electric crossover will also spawn a Lincoln EV. Speaking to Automotive News, Ford North America president Kumar Galhotra revealed Ford Motor Company’s electric architecture will also underpin a serene new electric Lincoln model. He didn’t say when the Lincoln-branded EV might arrive, but considering that Ford has already released two teaser images of the Mustang-inspired electric crossover, it seems as though the Ford-branded EV will arrive first.

A federal judge has found four women guilty of entering a national wildlife refuge without a permit as they sought to place food and water in the Arizona desert for migrants. US magistrate Judge Bernardo Velasco’s ruling on Friday marked the first conviction against humanitarian aid volunteers in a decade.

President Donald Trump is expected to propose extending protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients and individuals with temporary protected status in exchange for border wall funding in his remarks Saturday afternoon, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN.

Fortnite's V-Bucks are only good for two things: buying (allegedly stolen) emotes and if you're real sinister, scamming people on Twitter. Or so that's what we thought. A new report via the Independent claims that the game's currency is also being used as a money laundering tool on some weird parts of the Internet. Because, of course it is. This is 2019.

Almost three years after Palm Beach County officials set out to combat the opioid epidemic, it looks like their efforts are paying off: The State Attorney’s Office reports there were 326 opioid deaths in 2018, down from 558 in 2017. That’s a 41 percent decline. When the crisis started in 2012, 143 deaths were attributed to these addictive prescription drugs. Then there were 189 deaths in 2014, and 307 in 2015. They hit a peak of 569 in 2016.

Costco is opening a chicken farming operation in eastern Nebraska so it can (partially) escape America's chicken monopoly.

Once the Saints game is over Sunday night, you can experience yet another phenomenon that is out of this world.

A few blocks down the street from the White House, two dated 1970s office buildings are being combined and renovated into a space that will cut energy use and emissions by more than half. Soon, around half of the existing buildings in the city will also need to make changes under a new law.

Kraft Foods wants to make sure that government workers currently on furlough during the shutdown do not go hungry. On Tuesday, the food corporation announced it will open a pop-up store in Washington, D.C., from Jan. 16 through Sunday, Jan. 20, that will provide free food to government workers who can present the appropriate identification. The store is located at 1287 4th Street NE, two blocks from Union Market.

A federal judge in California says that uninsulated power conductors owned by a local utility company were the cause of several wildfires that state agencies battled across California since 2017. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup found that equipment from utility company Pacific Gas and Electric was the cause of some wildfires due to tree limbs and other debris knocking uninsulated power conductors together, NBC News reports.

Oliver wasn't always appreciated by critics, but she was still one of the country's most popular poets.

Every Christmas, the congregation of the Royse City First United Methodist Church donates its Christmas Eve offerings to charity. Last year, half of the donations went to a nonprofit and the other half to an elementary school down the street, to help cover the cost of school lunches for families thrat had fallen behind in payments.

Betty White is one of the most beloved and talented entertainers in America, with a career spanning more than 80s years. Most of us love her work on shows like "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Golden Girls" and "Hot and Cleveland," but White is also a show biz pioneer and an avid animal welfare activist. As she celebrates her 97th birthday, we celebrate Betty White with a look at her life in photos.

Trump is said to have been so heavily involved in the Trump Tower project in Moscow during the campaign he was ready to go meet with Putin to move things along.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly explosion that killed US service members in the Syrian city of Manbij on Wednesday.

Beginning in 1974, Mr. Bogle built Vanguard Group into one of the world’s largest mutual fund companies, attracting investors in droves.

A UPS driver is being praised for braving an icy pond to rescue a young dog trapped in the ice. Ryan Arens was on his route shortly before Christmas when he rolled up to a house in Bozeman, Montana, and heard a dog in distress. "This dog was screaming and crying and going crazy," he said.

The video about toxic masculinity, bullying and men's behaviour sparks outrage online.

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Last spring, Marketplace host Charlsie Agro and her identical twin sister, Carly, bought DNA ancestry kits from five of the most popular companies in the industry. Find out why some of the results they received left a team of computational biologists at Yale University baffled.

College students from rural areas are moving to big cities for higher wages to help pay off their student loans, according to new research from the Federal Reserve. Why it matters: A "rural brain drain" has been pulling college-educated people out of rural America and into urban areas, deepening an educational and political divide that is increasingly coming to define the country.

The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, which oversees the Jehovah’s Witnesses, has sent legal notices to a watchdog group demanding the takedown of documents describing what Witnesses say and share with each other in private. Because nothing would hurt the Witnesses more than their beliefs being exposed to a wider audience…

Scientist Brad Lister returned to Puerto Rican rainforest after 35 years to find 98% of ground insects had vanished

Today we removed multiple Pages, groups and accounts that engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram.

Earth's north magnetic pole is on the move, unpredictably lurching away from the Canadian Arctic and toward Siberia. It's wandered so much, that the current representation of the entire globe's magnetic field, just updated in 2015, is now out of date. And so, geologists have come up with a new model. This updated model, called the World Magnetic Model, was supposed to be published Jan. 15, but it's now been delayed to Jan. 30, on account of the government shutdown.

The Trump administration on Monday proposed rules that would allow drones to ope...