Friendly rivalries between Washington and Oregon include many aspects of Northwest life, from college football to urban hipsterism (best microbrew? coziest kombucha culture?) to record rainfall.

Real scientific efforts at universal communication have also involved mathematics and numbers. The covers of the Golden ...

Mathematics also features in a 1998 novella by Ted Chiang called Story of Your Life, which was adapted into the 2016 film ...

While 2025 was stacked with a few very notable science fiction movies, it's hard to deny the staying power of Predator: ...

While very different stories, both “The Little Prince” and “The Man Who Fell To Earth” center around aliens arriving to Earth ...

A frightening new production at London’s Hampstead Theatre combines gothic horror with cutting-edge audio design.

Tensions rose in Minneapolis after another shooting by federal agents. President Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the ...

President Trump repeated threats to strip federal funding over sanctuary city immigration policies, effective Feb. 1.

According to a police report reviewed by Newsweek, officers received the family’s missing-person call around midday.

The Department of Homeland Security said a federal officer shot a Venezuelan man in the leg in Minneapolis this evening after ...

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