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China-owned AMC seals deal to buy Carmike Cinemas, becomes largest theater chain in US

November 15, 2016

Carmike Cinemas shareholders on Tuesday approved a plan to sell the company to AMC Entertainment for $1.2 billion, including debt, making the Chinese-owned theater chain the largest in the country. Leawood,...

Lecturing points, cranked up to 11: The English teacher-led L.A. hard-core band Dangers forces you to pay attention

November 11, 2016

Inside a warehouse in industrial Vernon, Calif., Alfred Brown IV got repeatedly punched in the face. Spittle dripped from his mouth, and his jaw crunched under the hail of fists. Someone in Doc Martens...

Washington State University sororities, frats ban all social events due to alcohol-fueled issues

November 11, 2016

PULLMAN, Wash. — Sororities and fraternities at Washington State University have been banned from hosting campus events, in a move by the groups’ governing bodies to improve their negative reputation...

Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola vending machines side by side in New York in 2010. (Richard B. Levine/Sipa USA/TNS)

Does the soda industry manipulate research on sugary drinks’ health effects?

November 1, 2016

One hundred percent. That is the probability that a published study that finds no link between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and poorer metabolic health was underwritten by the makers of sugar-sweetened...

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Astronomers find hints of Planet Nine

October 29, 2016

The case for Planet Nine is growing. Two new findings presented at a planetary science meeting in Pasadena, Calif., have uncovered hints for the existence of this distant, mysterious world in the motions...

What’s the best college? It depends

October 29, 2016

If you’re a high school student deciding where to apply for college, or the parent of a student, you’ve probably done a fair amount of research. Even so, there are some schools that may have escaped...

Cosmic radiation may leave astronauts with long-term cases of ‘space brain,’ study says

Cosmic radiation may leave astronauts with long-term cases of ‘space brain,’ study says

October 11, 2016

This is your brain in space — and it does not look pretty. Scientists studying the effects of radiation in rodents say that astronauts’ exposure to galactic cosmic rays could face a host of cognitive...

How to really discuss radical Islam

October 3, 2016

Let’s suppose you’re teaching a current-events class about terrorism, and a student says that Muslims should be banned from the United States. What should you do? Here’s what you shouldn’t do:...

Why pay off debt if you can sue?

September 14, 2016

In the wake of the collapse of the Corinthian Colleges and questions about other for-profit career colleges, the Department of Education has drafted broad new rules for when people can get out of repaying...

a Humpback whale breaches on the way back from a day trip on Anacapa Island, off the coast near Ventura, Calif., in May 2008. The U.S. government on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016, removed most of the world's humpback populations from the federal list of endangered species.(Spencer Weiner/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Most humpback whale populations removed from US endangered species list

September 8, 2016

In a triumph for the global movement to save whales from oblivion, the U.S. government on Tuesday removed most of the world’s humpback populations from the federal list of endangered species, with some...

Naked University of South Carolina students latest tipping point for neighborhood residents

September 8, 2016

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Within the first week of school at the University of South Carolina, a girl woke up naked on the bench of Suzanne Keenan’s front porch. She was a very nice girl, who knew where she...

A new sarcophagus is under construction to cover the destroyed Chernobyl Reactor No. 4. The new cover is expected to be completed in the next few years, though Ukrainians are skeptical of the schedule. (Claudia Himmelreich/McClatchy DC/TNS)

Ruined Chernobyl nuclear plant to remain a threat for 3,000 years

April 28, 2016

By Matthew Schofield McClatchy Washington Bureau (TNS) PRIPYAT, Ukraine — Before the fire, the vomiting, the deaths and the vanishing home, it was the promise of bumper cars that captured the imagination...

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