Russia and the U.S. agreed Tuesday to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties, the two countries' top diplomats said.

McDowell County Schools will be closed on Wednesday. Schools will be closed for students. Wednesday will be an optional annual leave day for staff. McDowell Technical Community College will be classes ...

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

WASHINGTON — The Department of Education took another step Tuesday in advancing the Trump administration's new transgender policy for sports by asking the NCAA and a key high-school sports ...

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.

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

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King's exit from the administration is one of several departures of high-ranking officials concerned about DOGE staffers' ...

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