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There's been little public word about what has happened to an American college student detained in North Korea, as a new administration takes over one year later amid deep U.S. concerns about the hostile country's nuclear and missile development. North Korea announced last Jan. 22 it had detained Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia student from suburban Cincinnati, earlier that month for alleged anti-state crime.
As Americans feasted on turkey Thursday during the nation's first major post-election holiday, some took to social media to describe the political gloating, loathing and subject avoiding they experienced around the Thanksgiving table. Facebook and Twitter posts, many even before dinner was served, revealed some people still struggling to come to grips with Donald Trump's victory and others expressing relief that his rival, Hillary Clinton, didn't win.
"The fact that every close race tipped towards Trump, I think, was a surprise," he said of the 2016 Presidential Election. It's especially surprising to him because he's a political science professor and the director of the Winthrop Poll, which conducts four or more polls a year.
Jurors in Virginia has found Rolling Stone magazine defamed a University of Virginia administrator in a now-debunked story about an alleged rape on campus. What the verdict shows is that the U.S.'s system of libel laws are appropriately balanced with the freedom of the press - and that calls from both presidential candidates to weaken at the First Amendment are baseless and even dangerous.
Justice Clarence Thomas speaks to Julian Bond for the University of Virginia Black Leadership Series. YouTube screen grab: Justice Clarence Thomas joined the U.S. Supreme Court 25 years ago this week, yet Thomas-derangement has not abated with time.
The presidential candidates zeroed in on the crucial swing state of Florida on Tuesday, with Donald Trump making his fifth appearance there in three days and Hillary Clinton holding rallies Tuesday and Wednesday. The GOP nominee appeared in Sanford and launched familiar attacks on the media and Clinton, predicting victory in the Sunshine State despite lagging in the state's polls.
The Bella of the Ball! Michelle Obama pulls out all the stops for Barack's last state dinner as she welcomes a VERY impressed Italian prime minister in a stunning custom-made Versace gown Senior Democratic strategist resigns after video surfaces showing his staff planning to incite violence at Trump rallies and discussing paying mentally ill-people to disrupt GOP events Samsung customers propose class action lawsuit against company for 'charging them monthly fees after they were told not to use exploding Galaxy Note 7s' Are you making your children fat? From cultivating an adult palate to giving them snacks BEFORE they're hungry, experts reveal the best ways to keep your kids healthy Iran sentences Iranian-American businessman and his ailing father to 10 years in prison for 'spying for the United States' 'Jackie' says University of Virginia dean did 'everything right' when she reported ... (more)
The Bella of the Ball! Michelle Obama pulls out all the stops for Barack's last state dinner as she welcomes a VERY impressed Italian prime minister in a stunning custom-made Versace gown Senior Democratic strategist resigns after video surfaces showing his staff planning to incite violence at Trump rallies and discussing paying mentally ill-people to disrupt GOP events Samsung customers propose class action lawsuit against company for 'charging them monthly fees after they were told not to use exploding Galaxy Note 7s' Are you making your children fat? From cultivating an adult palate to giving them snacks BEFORE they're hungry, experts reveal the best ways to keep your kids healthy Iran sentences Iranian-American businessman and his ailing father to 10 years in prison for 'spying for the United States' 'Jackie' says University of Virginia dean did 'everything right' when she reported ... (more)
A voter casts his presidential ballot at a polling station in Staten Island in 2012. This year, not all political models agree on who the winner will be.
Mohamed Nawabe has begun clearing the trees and bushes on the property purchased for an Islamic prayer center in Culpeper and has received a permit to demolish the long-abandoned house.
Charlottesville is a diverse, enlightened, and progressive college town in Virginia with its public spaces dominated by war memorials, in particular memorials to Confederate soldiers not from Charlottesville who represent a five-year moment in the centuries of this place's history, as viewed by one wealthy white male racist donor at another moment in the 1920s. As the Black Lives Matter movement took off nationally this year, many Charlottesville residents demanded that imposing monuments to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson be removed from their places of prominence.
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., listens as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at Florida International University Panther Arena in Miami, Saturday, July 23, 2016. Clinton has chosen Kaine to be her running mate.
A general view of atmosphere at the Rolling Stone Magazine Official 2012 American Music Awards VIP after party presented by Nokia and Rdio at Rolling Stone Restaurant And Lounge on Nov. 18, 2012 in Los Angeles. New court documents filed in the defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone reveal that disgraced reporter Sabrina Erdely knew her story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia was deeply flawed, but refused to change it because improving it would simply be too much work.
Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident. Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne prepares to lay a wealth at the Cenotaph in St Peter's Square, Manchester, England, where a commemoration is being held to mark the 100th anniversary of the start of the Wor... Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident. Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident.
Authorities say an off-duty New York City police officer fatally shot a man after being attacked during a road rage incident. Reno police said they shot to death a man who tried to run over an officer as he attempted to drive into a crowded chicken wing festival, KNRV TV reported.
More than ... . People light candles at the scene of a massive car bomb attack in Karada, a busy shopping district where people were shopping for the upcoming Eid al-Fitr holiday, in the center of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, July 3, 2016.
Investigators say a 9-year-old girl in Compton lost her left hand and fingers on her right hand in an explosion that was likely caused by the use of illegal fireworks. Investigators say a 9-year-old girl in Compton lost her left hand and fingers on her right hand in an explosion that was likely caused by the use of illegal fireworks.
A former White House college sexual assault task force member appears to have been gunning for a University of Virginia fraternity smeared in a Rolling Stone article about a now-debunked campus gang rape, newly released emails show. "I want to see these guys gone and I want to keep it as legally sound as possible," UVA alum Emily Renda wrote to Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely in July 2014, several months before the Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus" was published.
Five-time NBA Champion Earvin "Magic" Johnson will partner with SC State University to raise $2.5 million toward an endowed scholarship that will bear the global businessman's name. Such a philanthropic effort is the first in the university's history.