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Ilhan Omar says she was "subjected to the most hateful, derogatory, Islamophobic, sexist taunts and threats I have ever experienced" in a cab during her visit to the nation's capital.

Chicago's Shedd Aquarium released an obituary of more than 1,000 words for the recently departed 4-foot-long fish. It had arrived before the 1933 World's Fair, and was seen by some 104 million guests.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will allow the pipeline to cross under the Missouri River, cutting short an environmental impact assessment and removing the final barrier to construction.

Oprah Winfrey gave up her coveted spot as the queen of daytime talk to start a cable network. A year after its launch, however, OWN is struggling. Winfrey hopes a show of her own will boost viewership, but admits that running the network is much harder than she anticipated.

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Russia Saturday to protest alleged vote-rigging in recent parliamentary elections. The protests are the largest in the country since the fall of the Soviet Union. Reporter Peter van Dyk updates host Scott Simon from Moscow.

Authorities identified the gunman as a 22-year-old Army veteran. Police have not released a motive for the shooting in which no one else was injured.

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social…

Americans in Austria can now go to any McDonald's to get help contacting the U.S. consulate under terms of a new partnership between McDonald's locations in Austria and the U.S. Embassy in Vienna.

This back-to-school season, it's time to reevaluate a few common assumptions about how best to study. Benedict Carey, the author of How We Learn, says science shows that discipline isn't everything.

A new study from the Kauffman Foundation shows that the number of immigrant entrepreneurs in the country has fallen slightly. But according to Vivek Wadhwa, an author of the study, the drop is especially steep in Silicon Valley.