8+ hour, 59+ min ago  (31+ words) Yahoo News UK Moment historian Gordon S. Wood receives National Humanities Medal from Obama in 2010 Source C-Span...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (433+ words) A former North East pupil has returned to his old school to help bring a new garden project to life for the latest generation of students. Peter Scott, a director at recycling firm Scott Bros, visited St Patrick's Catholic College…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago  (599+ words) In 2006, Carl Koch sued his employer for damages after burn injuries during a workplace accident that left him with chronic pain. The employer accused him of malingering, so the judge admitted a neuroscientist as an expert witness, who testified that…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (51+ words) Yahoo News UK Construction is underway on the South Lawn of the White House as crews assemble an octagon-style UFC fighting cage, complete with fencing, staging areas, and thousands of temporary seats, ahead of UFC Freedom 250....

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (476+ words) A temporary, octagon-shaped cage is currently being erected on the South Lawn of the White House, ahead of a historic night of UFC action next month. This unusual construction project is set to mark both the nation's 250th anniversary and President…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (282+ words) WASHINGTON, April 28 (Reuters) - The U. S. State Department said on Tuesday it would produce a limited number of "commemorative passports bearing a portrait of Donald Trump, the latest "example of the administration attaching the president's likeness or name to official property. The…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (375+ words) A majority of Americans now say the promise of upward mobility is harder to achieve than it was for their parents, according to a new Times/You Gov poll. Fifty-nine percent of respondents said success is less attainable today, reflecting…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (146+ words) A former film actor turned prisoner who went from Hollywood to HMP Durham has died suddenly aged 55. He had served half of an 18-month jail sentence for assaulting his ex-partner and breaching a restraining order. Jordan Hoganson (Image: PA) The…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (474+ words) By Mehmet Emin Caliskan, Bulent Usta and Murad Sezer ISTANBUL, April 7 (Reuters) - One attacker was killed and two others were wounded in an extended gun battle with police outside the tower building housing the Israeli "consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday....

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (158+ words) A gunman was killed and two others wounded in a shootout Tuesday with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul, the local governor said, adding that two officers were lightly wounded. Istanbul "Governor Davut Gul told reporters there had been…...