“Schools around the country close in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But schools in the Deep South are also observing the birthday of Confederate General, Robert E. Lee. Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia and Alabama all officially roll the holidays together and leave it to schools to communicate the confusing …

“It’s becoming depressingly familiar: Bankers joke openly in emails about a toxic investment they’re creating. Bankers sell said toxic investment to clients while betting against it. Everybody loses money, nobody goes to jail. Rinse, repeat, crash the economy. The latest round of emails was produced in a lawsuit by a …

“Huang Yuanyuan is working late at her job in a Beijing radio newsroom. She’s also stressing out about the fact that the next day, she’ll turn 29. “Scary. I’m one year older,” she says. “I’m nervous.” Why? “Because I’m still single. I have no boyfriend. I’m having big pressure to …

” Australian resources firm Linc Energy said it had uncovered a huge oil deposit in the nation’s vast outback in a discovery hailed Thursday by officials as worth some Aus$20 trillion (US$21 trillion). Linc said two independent reviews of its three deposits in central Australia’s Arckaringa Basin had estimated there …

As the fight continues on whether teachers and school staff should carry weapons, one South Carolina lawmaker is turning the armed attention to students. Republican state Sen. Lee Bright has introduced a new bill that would create a guns and shooting class for the state’s high schoolers, taking one step …

“Avoiding an economic showdown with President Obama, the House on Wednesday passed legislation to eliminate the nation’s statutory borrowing limit until May, without including the dollar-for-dollar spending cuts that Republicans once insisted would have to be part of any debt limit bill.”* House Republicans have had a rare cave-in on …

After three days of practice at the 2013 Senior Bowl, Dan Rubenstein breaks down the players who have shined during Senior Bowl practice in Mobile, AL – players highlighted are Mike Glennon (NC State), Denard Robinson (Michigan), Kenjon Barner (Oregon), Quinton Patton (Louisiana Tech), Datone Jones (UCLA), and Kawann Short …

Tom Shadyac is one of Hollywood’s most successful writer/director/producers. Some of his work includes directing Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty, and I Am. How did his career take off? How did he know Jim Carrey, then “the white guy on In Living Color,” would be the comedy …

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The fleet has invested time and money in searching for places where bluefin tuna congregate and feed, locations known as “numbers”. A fisherman’s numbers are sacred, and when that line is crossed, tempers will flare. ➡ Subscribe: http://bit.ly/NatGeoSubscribe About Wicked Tuna: Wicked Tuna follows a group of salty fishermen from …