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This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University Theme at WIU. By bringing internationally renowned speakers to campus, the University Theme offers…

The automaker, a symbol of Italy's industrial revolution and the country's biggest employer, had threatened to shut down its operations. It's part of a wider problem: A decade of globalization and three years of the euro crisis have accelerated Italy's industrial decay.

Local contractors will handle a majority of the upcoming improvements to downtown Fort Madison.The city secured a $500,000 state grant to improve the…

Hundreds of pages of documents and other materials offer some new insights into what happened when George Zimmerman and Martin encountered each other on Feb. 26.

Workers added a steel column this afternoon, making the skyscrapere 21 feet taller than the observation deck at the Empire State Building. That's a symbolic return to the sky for a site destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Landing on Mars is no walk in the park. It requires years of planning, thousands of engineers and, in the case of NASA's Curiosity rover, billions of dollars. NPR's Joe Palca has covered the last four successful landing missions and has some thoughts about process of getting to Mars.

On the campaign trail in Pittsburgh this morning, NPR's Ari Shapiro stopped into the hotel gym for an early morning workout. The other person working out in the tiny fitness center had two things of note: an iPad app for the intense P90X exercise routine, and a Secret Service escort.

Attorney Gen. Eric Holder said it could not bring criminal charges, because of insufficient "admissible evidence."

On the campaign trail, Josefina Vazquez Mota avoids marketing herself as a presidential candidate specifically for women. One expert says the nomination shows change, but that's not Vazquez Mota's only challenge.

Saturday is presidential primary day in Louisiana where 20 delegates are at stake. Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul all campaigned there Friday. Romney leads in national polling, but Santorum is ahead in Louisiana.