Earth Day has its roots in growing concern over pollution in the 1960s, when author Rachel Carson's 1962 book “Silent Spring,” about the pesticide DDT and its damaging effects on the food chain, hit ...

The smallest city in the NFL will host the league's biggest off-season event beginning on Thursday, as tens of thousands are ...

Iowa native Shelby Houlihan will compete in the Drake Relays this week after serving a four-year ban from track and field.

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Old school: early Earth Day flag. Beverly, CC BY-SA Shahid Naeem, Columbia University Today is Earth Day, but it’s one of the ...

On June 21, 1982, people in the United Kingdom weren't just celebrating midsummer and the longest day of the year, the joyful ...

POPE Francis’ funeral will be held on Saturday morning, the Vatican has announced. The service will be led at 10am local time ...

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Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

Under a new policy, the “official” results cut off at 5:30 p.m. Rayna Burke crossed the finish line at 5:29 p.m.

The pope's death at age 88 ends a 12-year papacy that began with the historic resignation of Francis' predecessor in 2013.

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