1775: Angelo Braschi is chosen as Pope Pius VI. 1804: New Jersey becomes the last northern state to abolish slavery. 1852: Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children in London admits its first patient ...

A local developer plans to seek public financing once again to support a potential income-restricted apartment project on a vacant south High Point site. Wynnefield Properties unsuccessfully sought a ...

Former Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan’s $158,000 annual state of Illinois pension is being halted following his high-profile corruption conviction.

The Senate voted 53 to 47 to confirm Russell T. Vought — an architect of the ultraconservative Project 2025 policy agenda — ...

That’s how wide the tent is at the SXSW Conference, as demonstrated in today’s latest lineup announcement, where Hollywood heavyweights like Kevin Bacon and Issa Rae share space with futurists and ...

Mark Cuban, Kevin Bacon, Pedro Pascal, Taylor Tomlinson and Conan O'Brien will all have featured sessions at SXSW 2025. Read the announcement here.

An art dealer says a painting by the husband of renowned folk artist Maud Lewis sold Sunday for $5,500, the catch being that he falsely signed his wife's name to his work.

Michael Asher's heady, incisive work is getting the retrospective treatment at Artists Space. It's one of the best shows in ...

It also created the room for a juicy narrative: Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni may as well officially be the NFL version of ...

Every year, in that dismal stretch between winter and spring, we gather around our televisions—snacks in tow—to watch the Super Bowl. For some, it's all about the game, while for others, it's solely ...

Here’s some history of musicians who were Washingtonians, or got famous on the Washington state music scene, for Black History Month.

Produced by two TV legends, Norman Lear and Laverne Cox, this Black family sitcom from Prime Video brings together the former ...