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Texas takes it: Dallas-area kids are tops at spelling bee

OXON HILL, Md. – The end of the biggest Scripps National Spelling Bee in history came abruptly, and it wasn’t the conclusion that many expected. Naysa Modi, a poised and charismatic four-tim...

DATE: Jun 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wild card triumph: Little-known speller wins national bee

OXON HILL, Md. – Karthik Nemmani didn’t win his regional spelling bee. He didn’t even win his county spelling bee. But he was still good enough to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. ...

DATE: May 31, 2018 | CATEGORY: Education

FBI: Gunman acted alone in shooting of congressman

WASHINGTON – A gunman acted alone when he shot and wounded a top House Republican and four other people on a northern Virginia baseball field, the FBI said Wednesday. Tim Slater, ...

DATE: Jun 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Unflappable Ananya Vinay wins National Spelling Bee

OXON HILL, Md. – Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The 12-year-old from Fresno, Ca...

DATE: Jun 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Kids from 6 to 15 savor moments at National Spelling Bee

OXON HILL, Md. – The Scripps National Spelling Bee weeded out the field to the truly elite spellers during Wednesday’s grueling preliminary rounds. Each of the 291 spellers got the opportuni...

DATE: May 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

Spreadsheets and determination lead to Geographic Bee win

WASHINGTON – Pranay Varada was stung by last year’s National Geographic Bee, when he flubbed the official language of Sierra Leone – it’s English; he answered French – and finished in sixth ...

DATE: May 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Education

2 federal judges find new Trump travel ban discriminatory

GREENBELT, Md. – Rejecting arguments from the government that President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was substantially different from the first one, judges in Hawaii and Maryland blocke...

DATE: Mar 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Protesters denounce Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric, plans

Rallies spring up across the U.S.

DATE: Jan 14, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Reagan shooter can leave hospital to live in Virginia

WASHINGTON – More than 35 years after he tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan in an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster, John Hinckley Jr. will be allowed to leave a Washington me...

DATE: Jul 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Smokey Robinson honored with national pop music prize

WASHINGTON – Whether he was singing his own compositions or writing for other artists, Smokey Robinson was instrumental in shaping the Motown sound that changed American popular music in the...

DATE: Jul 5, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music

Armed man shot, arrested at White House checkpoint

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Secret Service officer shot a man with a gun who approached a checkpoint outside the White House on Friday afternoon and refused to drop his weapon, the Secret Service sa...

DATE: May 20, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Police: D.C.-area shooting spree random after first attack

Authorities unable to capture suspect after first shootings

DATE: May 7, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World