Nation
August 22, 2017

Eclipse brings tears, wonder

Variety
August 22, 2017
Staff Photo by Glen Stubbe

A day later, eclipse watchers ask: Did I hurt my eyes?

Symptoms of eye damage from the sun include blurriness and spotty vision.
Celebrities
August 22, 2017
A man walks past the offices of the Village Voice in New York. The Village Voice is ending its free weekly print edition, the company announced on Tue

New York's famous Village Voice will end its print edition

Nation
August 21, 2017
Honolulu in October will become the first U.S. city to impose fines if pedestrians text while walking crossing streets.

Should pedestrians who text be fined? More cities debate idea

It's such a hazard that Honolulu last month adopted an ordinance to outlaw smartphone use by pedestrians crossing streets.
Nation
August 21, 2017

Monday's business briefing

Nation
August 19, 2017
This undated photo provided by SeaWorld shows Kasatka, one of the entertainment company's last killer whales to come from the wild, in its compound at

SeaWorld has an identity crisis

Crowds dwindle as people reject performing animals.
August 18, 2017
Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump's White House, is leaving.

Steve Bannon out at the White House

The White House confirmed his departure, saying it was "mutually agreed" that this would be his last day. A person close to Bannon said he resigned Aug. 7, and the announcement was delayed because of the Charlottesville violence.
Nation
August 18, 2017
Carina Johannessen, an emergency room nurse, poses for a portrait in her home in Joliet, Ill., on Monday, July 31, 2017. (Alexandra Wimley/Chicago Tri

When healers are attacked

Almost daily verbal abuse and physical aggression are reported at hospitals.
Nation
August 18, 2017
FILE - This Feb. 26, 2015, photo shows a full-scale mock-up of a high-speed train, displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif. The California Supre

High-speed train to connect Houston, Dallas

The train will run on its own tracks, separated from roads and elevated in most places in the Houston area.
Nation
August 17, 2017

What does 'antifa' mean?

Nation
August 17, 2017
Raw: Hundreds gather for Charlottesville vigil

Raw: Hundreds gather for Charlottesville vigil

Hundreds of people gathered on the University of Virginia campus for a candlelight vigil against hate and violence. Marchers Wednesday peacefully assembled in the same place where hundreds of torch-carrying white nationalists marched Friday.
Variety
August 16, 2017
With a solar eclipse anticipated in the United States in a month, NASA warns that not all solar eclipse viewing glasses are safe. (Dreamstime/TNS) ORG

NASA: Not all solar eclipse viewing glasses are safe

Many glasses on the market don't provide adequate protection.
Business
August 15, 2017

Big Pharma having Big Tobacco moment as star lawyers push opioid lawsuits

States, local governments suing over drug epidemic.
Nation
August 15, 2017
Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier was the first CEO to quit President Trump's business panel in the wake of the Charlottesville violence.

Trump lashes out as another CEO resigns from his panel

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ripped three top corporate chief executives who resigned from his manufacturing council in protest of his handling of the Charlottesville, Va., violence, calling them "grandstanders."
Local
August 15, 2017
Here's where a Fargo man's connection to white supremacy gained global attention.

Fargo father publicly disowns son over white nationalists rally

"I, along with all of his siblings and his entire family, wish to loudly repudiate my son's vile, hateful and racist rhetoric and actions," the father wrote in an online letter to the Fargo newspaper.
Nation
August 14, 2017
FILE — Steve Bannon, center, President Donald Trump's chief strategist, arrives on Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, April 28, 2

Steve Bannon's position in limbo as Trump faces to pressure to oust strategist

Nation
August 14, 2017
Trump mourns those killed in Charlottesville

Trump mourns those killed in Charlottesville

President Donald Trump expressed condolences for the death of Heather Heyer, who was killed by a moving car in Charlottesville Saturday. He also mourned the deaths of two state troopers.
Nation
August 14, 2017
2 shot dead at Wisconsin car racing event

2 shot dead at Wisconsin car racing event

Three men were shot and killed during an auto racing event south of Milwaukee on Sunday, a Wisconsin sheriff said. A suspect shot the three men, apparently at point-black range, near a food vendor. The suspect fled the scene.
Nation
August 13, 2017
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) at a campaign rally in Sanford, Fla., on March 7, 2016. Rubio objected strongly to President Barack Obama's detente with Cub

Powerful Venezuelan lawmaker may have issued death order against Rubio, U.S. memo says

Alert follows possible threat from Venezuela.
Local
August 13, 2017
Troy Holcombe, a forester with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, looked for tamarack trees damaged by larch beetles. The native bugs&#x20

Explosion of larch beetles in warming climate is transforming Minn. forests

Climate change means more native burrowing bugs survive to reproduce and harm tamaracks.

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