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Big-league baseball returns to Washington, D.C., with a bang after a 34-years absence. The Washington Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 in the team's home opener Thursday night before a sellout crowd at a refurbished Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

President Ronald Reagan was buried Friday after a day of tributes that began in Washington, D.C., and ended with a sunset ceremony at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. His three surviving children offered fond memories of their father. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) tells a crowd at the Illinois state capital that he is running for the White House in 2008. The first-term U.S. senator began his elected life at the state legislature 10 years ago.

After months of speculation, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) makes it official: he's running for president. Obama opened his run for the White House before a large crowd in Springfield, Illinois.

Photographer Adam Kissick captured amazing SXSW moments in GIF form: an epic jump from Diet Cig's Alex Luciano, pop alchemist D∆WN's killer moves and thrash metal band Black Fast's shredding.

More than 1,400 pharmacies billed for questionable prescriptions last year, according to the inspector general at Health and Human Services. That includes prescriptions for commonly abused opioids.

Canada plans to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees within the next 3 months. Nearly half are being sponsored by private citizens who commit to helping the Syrians financially and socially for one year.

In the long-running war between farmers and weeds, it's advantage, weeds. Scientists in Kansas have found examples of the dreaded pigweed that are immune to the newest weed-killing technologies.

A new book looks at how the military and Hollywood directors teamed up during the war. The films they made helped show Americans what was at stake, and served as evidence during the Nuremberg Trials.

In 2017, three members of Ranky Tanky, a band that takes inspiration from the Gullah people, performed songs from their self-titled debut album. The band's new album is Good Time.