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The Trump administration said it would begin to "aggressively" revoke visas from Chinese students with connections to China's ruling Communist Party or who were studying in fields deemed critical.

An extreme geomagnetic storm reached Earth yesterday, with the northern lights dancing across the skies in places they're normally not seen. It's the most powerful solar storm in decades.

Louisiana's governor sent the NFL Commissioner a letter complaining about a missed penalty that New Orleans Saints fans say cost their team a chance to play in the Super Bowl.

Actor Will Ferrell wants to make a video with Ryan Lochte, who's also fielding reality TV offers, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In London, the Olympic medal winner said he'd like to win a mirrored-ball trophy — the grand prize for Dancing With the Stars.

Host Howard Berkes continues the second part of a two part story on the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Mormon Militiamen killed over a hundred Arkansas settlers on a Southern Utah field in 1857...and now the Mormon Church is working to put the matter to rest. The Church has not accepted blame for the incident, but it has built a new monument on the site. Some descendents of both the travelers and the militiamen say the gesture is helping them come to terms with what happened a hundred and forty-seven years ago.

David Card shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics this week with two other economists, in recognition of his achievements and contributions to the field of labor economics.

Toward the end of Sunday's game, the Green Bay Packers and the Cincinnati Bengals kept missing game-winning field goals — five in all. Finally, the Packers won 25-22 in overtime.

administers it's DNA repository. They've been collecting blood samples from the military to help identify remains of soldiers killed in the field. Critics worry there are insufficient safegurds to protect the confidentiality of the samples. Despite the changes in the system, two Marines still face a court martial for refusing to give samples of their blood to the Pentagon's repository.

between the State of Illinois and the City of Chicago over Meigs Field, the tiny airport on Lake Michigan, which is very convenient for state officials traveling to and from the capital in Springfield. The State legislature has voted to take control of the airport site, something Mayor Richard Daley promises to fight in court. Chicago wants to make a public park on the land.

Norway has launched a unique construction project on the remote Norwegian island of Svalbard, halfway between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. It's an underground vault for agricultural seeds, a kind of Noah's Ark for millions of varieties of wheat, rice, and hundreds of other crops that farmers no longer plant in their fields. For a soft-spoken man from western Tennessee named Cary Fowler, it's the culmination of a lifelong -- and controversial -- campaign.