Sunset in a snowy Sidney, Nebraska Tens of millions of people across a wide swatch of the United States are bracing for a winter storm that could turn out to be the most powerful one in over a decade. The

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A Jehu Air aircraft with 181 people on board crash landed at an airport in South Korea on Sunday killing all passengers and most crew members. The Boeing 737-800 was landing at Muan International Airport in the country’s south at

“Weekend Update – News that Matters” is a weekly feature that offers brief overviews of important news that you may have missed during a busy holiday weekend. Here’s what, no pun intended, may have flown under your radar in the

The tradition of watching “Dinner for One,” the brilliant and obscure 18-minute short film based on a book by Lauri Wylie that depicts the story of Miss Sophie Warden, an upper-class woman who is celebrating her 90th birthday, being served

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