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The long and winding roads to Alaska, part 2

Picking up on last week’s part of my family’s trip to Alaska: Finally, we came into the city, that being Minneapolis. We pulled up to our hotel. It was pretty easy to picture in your brain. It had four or five floors. It was a Hampton Inn Suites. We unloaded the car and headed over to ...

Study: Spacecraft impact changed asteroid’s orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming killer space rock, scientists reported Friday. It's the first time that a celestial body's orbit ...

Bloodhounds excel at helping police find missing people

FARGO, N.D. — The North Dakota Highway Patrol's newest recruit has floppy ears, four legs and an amazing knack for finding people. Beau, a 12-week-old puppy, is joining a band of bloodhounds who are in demand for difficult cases across the upper Midwest. They trail missing children, people ...

Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. added to Oscars presenter lineup

Is an "Iron Man" reunion coming to the Oscars? Gwyneth Paltrow and Robert Downey Jr. are both set to present at the Oscars on March 15. The show's executive producers revealed a new batch of presenters Thursday, including Anne Hathaway, Will Arnett, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, and Paul ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s ‘The Bride!’ is a Frankenstein riff with a pulse

Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Bride!" is a big, brash swing at a new "The Bride of Frankenstein" that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I'll say this for it: It's alive. Just months after Guillermo del Toro presented his lavish "Frankenstein," Gyllenhaal, in her follow-up to her excellent ...