Joe Heim

Violent clashes between white supremacists and counterprotesters break out in Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – After a morning of violent clashes between white nationalists and counterprotesters, police ordered hundreds of people out of a downtown park – putting an end to a noo...

Excitement and caution as Liberty U. awaits Trump commencement speech

LYNCHBURG, Va. – It’s exam week at Liberty University and everywhere are signs of last-minute cramming. Study groups are bunched around tables inside the student union. The Jerry Falwell Lib...

North Dakota pipeline foes bring their fears to Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday on a cold and blustery National Mall to show support for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in its effort to halt work on a pipeline in North...

Stressed at school? Professor says humor can help

New book outlines strategies to cope

American schools have a chronic absentee problem

WASHINGTON – If showing up is half the battle, a lot of American schoolchildren are in trouble. A new analysis of data collected by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Righ...

Don't write an epitaph for cursive just yet

Cursive writing was supposed to be dead by now. Schools would stop teaching it. Kids would stop learning it. Everyone would stop using it. The Common Core standards adopted by most states in...

Indian-Americans dominate spelling bee

Why should they take abuse on social media?