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Despite receiving a rare penalty, China's 14-year-old Guan Tianlang hung on to make the cut at the Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club, making the eighth-grader the youngest player to make the cut on a major PGA tournament.

As PGAtour.com reports, Guan was assessed a one-stroke penalty for ...

Maria Tallchief, who broke barriers to become one of the most respected American ballerinas, died on Thursday of complications from a broken hip.

She was 88.

The New York Times reports that Tallchief was "a crucial artistic inspiration for choreographer George Balanchine, her first husband."

As her career took ...

Joining the Senate, the House of Representatives approved a measure today that repeals a requirement that top government officials post financial disclosures on the Internet.

The House, like the Senate, acted quietly without a vote. Instead, they sent the measure to the president's desk by unanimous consent.

The provision was ...

President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama report that they had an adjusted gross income of $608,611 in 2012. The couple gave $150,034 to charity and ended up paying $112,214 in taxes.

That's an effective tax rate of about 18 percent.

That's a drop from what Obama had paid in ...

Rick Warren, one of the country's most influential pastors, made a stunning revelation on Twitter today:

Warren's 27-year-old son Matthew committed suicide late last week. The AP reports:

"Orange County Sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said Thursday that the gun's serial number was scratched off.

"It's illegal in ...

The National Hockey League and its players union launched an initiative today that it hopes will stamp out homophobia from the game.

NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman tells our Newscast unit that the partnership with You Can Play is intended to send a message that everyone is welcome in the ...

The Pentagon's intelligence arm has "moderate confidence" that North Korea may have developed the technology to create nuclear weapons that are small enough to fit on a long-range missile.

NPR's Larry Abramson filed this report for our Newscast unit:

"The Defense Intelligence Agency assessment says such a weapon would ...

A Democrat on the committee of the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Democratic Party says a liberal SuperPAC was responsible for surreptitiously recording a strategy session between Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and some of his campaign aides.

As Mark reported on Tuesday, a McConnell aide is heard saying that actress Ashley ...

This week, Washington took on hip-hop royalty, when two Florida representatives went after Jay-Z and Beyonce for their recent trip to Cuba.

"We're saying that no one is above the law, even if you are the diva Beyoncé, and that's wonderful that she's famous and rich, and Jay-Z, everybody loves ...

Argentina is shrugging off Britain's decision to leave President Cristina Fernandez off the guest list for the funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

"What do I care if I'm not invivted somewhere I never intended to go," Argentina's Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman told Radio Del Plata. "It's ...

Uruguay's congress has approved a law that legalizes gay marriage. Once President José Mujica signs it into law, as is expected, the country will join Argentina as the only other Latin American country to legalize gay marriage.

Reuters reports:

"'I agree that family is the basis of society ...

A SWAT team moved into a Suwanee, Ga. home, killing a suspect who was had been holding a group of firefighters hostage on Wednesday.

Cpl. Edwin Ritter, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Police Department, said during a televised press conference that one officer appeared to have been shot in the ...

The atmosphere was different today.

"We have hope," Elsa Flores said. She was demonstrating with thousands of other protesters in Washington on Wednesday, demanding a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants.

Flores looked toward the U.S. Capitol dome, which was brilliant under an unusually hot spring ...

Hip-hop's royal couple Jay-Z and Beyonce went to Cuba with a group authorized to travel to the island by the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

"It is our understanding that the travelers in question traveled to Cuba pursuant to an educational exchange trip organized by a group authorized ...

As a thank you for sending French troops to repel Islamist rebels out of Mali, the government gifted President François Hollande a small camel.

As The Guardian tells the story, this was back in February and Hollande was intent on bringing the camel back to France.

"He joked at ...

We almost feel guilty writing this post, because here in Washington, we're finally seeing some spring (the cherry blossoms have reached full bloom!): But in the Plains, a spring storm is bringing snow to Colorado and Wyoming and whipped up enough winds to cover parts of Arizona in dust.

Fourteen people were injured after a stabbing incident at a Houston-area college.

The Lone Star College System put its Cy-Fair campus on lockdown on Tuesday following the stabbing. One suspect — a 20-year-old man who was enrolled in the school — was apprehended.

Harris County Sheriff's Office said in a ...

Any mention — positive or negative — of a woman's looks, hurts her chances with voters. That's according to two new surveys commissioned by Women's Media Center "Name It, Change It" project.

"In the survey on media coverage of women candidates' appearance, conducted by Celinda Lake of Lake Research ...