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This year’s top photographs capture the quiet and chaotic from the American South to East Asia

“She’s taught all of us that Native values make Americans stronger.” - President Barack Obama

Advice on how, when, and where to catch, safely, the total solar eclipse on April 8, the last to be visible anywhere in the US for nine years.

Here are at least nine places to watch the eclipse in the DMV.

When Emily Howell Warner stepped into a Frontier Airlines cockpit in 1973, she stepped into history.

Former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett wanted to display artist David Lenz's 'Sam and the Perfect World' portrait at the embassy

The U.S. military recently teamed up with the FBI and the Smithsonian Institution to return 22 artworks and other items missing since World War II to Okinawa. The return of the artifacts, believed to have been looted by U.S. troops, has rekindled interest in other treasures lost during the Battle of Okinawa nearly 80 years ago.

By Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN

A Colorado startup's vision of the next supersonic passenger airliner is a Mach 1.7 jet called the Overture, and its first prototype just took flight.

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) - A group of Connecticut students with sickle cell disease are about to embark on a special trip that could pave the way to incredible careers in the future.