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Bolden grew up in segregated South Carolina. One of his state senators, Strom Thurmond, blocked his efforts to get to the Naval Academy, but a Hail-Mary letter to Lyndon Johnson helped him get there.

After a day of long lines at the polls and last-minute campaigning, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary. Here's how the evening unfolded, in pictures.

Donald Trump showed he could turn his supporters into voters — an important victory for a candidate whose brand is all about winning. Bernie Sander's win was a stunning blow to Hillary Clinton.

On the Internet your bound to see ads that read: earn thousands of dollars a week working from home. Click on one of them and you enter a world that has ensnared people in money-losing ventures.

When you pull up to the gas pump, low oil prices may make you smile. Low prices are wreaking havoc in oil states. We check in with a big oil field services firm based in Texas to assess the damage.

From terrifying man-eater to fish-out-of-water, a sole surviving full-scale model of the 1975 Jaws shark is on its way to a museum.

Also: Federal Reserve Chair Yellen testifies on Capitol Hill; Southern California is baking in near-record heat; and terms of a new Amazon game don't all apply in case of a zombie apocalypse.

Packed with music references and enough science to keep its time travel premise plausible, Every Anxious Wave "rings with a uniqueness that transcends the tropes of time travel and indie romance."

Democrats hold their caucuses on Saturday Feb. 20 in Nevada, and Republicans will vote in a caucus of their own Feb. 23.

Environmentalists are disappointed over the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to put the EPA’s Clean Power Plan on hold. But they say it won’t slow…

NPR looks at the state of the Democratic presidential race after Bernie Sanders' decisive victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

The U.S. Supreme Court has put a hold on the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which would significantly regulate coal, after 27 states sued over the proposal. Among them was Wyoming, which produces more coal than any other state. NPR reports on how the court's stay is being received in coal producing states.

A massive methane leak may soon end, but its environmental impact is still being weighed. A scientist says it won't have a big effect globally, but it's a setback in efforts to curb greenhouse gases.

"But it's not a show about women stuff," Jo Miller says. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee covers refugees, mental health, prison and climate change, among other things.

After federal agents closed in on four remaining anti-government militants still holed up in Oregon, they indicated they would probably surrender to the FBI Thursday morning.

A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard is on trial in Germany for 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. Reinhold Hanning admits to being a guard at the camp but denies he was involved in mass murder.

Mary Louise Kelly talks to Iranian-American writer Azadeh Moaveni about how Iran's intelligence establishment tries to intimidate journalists, and what happened to her in a London cafe.

Terms and Conditions in free software says certain provisions can be ignored in the case of a widespread viral infection that causes human corpses to reanimate and seem to consume living human flesh.

A state administrative law judge has rejected local activists’ appeals of state permits allowing Duke Energy to dump coal ash at old clay mines in central…

Astronomer and cosmologist Lord Martin Rees asks whether our species will endure despite the many existential threats we face.