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This weekend Kent State is celebrating one of its own. Alice Ripley's star began to rise on Broadway in the 90s - not long after her time at Kent State University and its summer stage - the Porthouse Theater at Blossom. In her Broadway career, she's played a siamese twin ("Side Show") a delusional, bipolar depressive ("Next to Normal") and most recently the mother of an "American Psycho."

Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau show Americans have spent an extra two and a half hours commuting last year compared to the year before.

American truths, not so self-evident. Historian Jill Lepore on why the tension between fact and fiction has been with us since the nation’s founding.

The 20-foot-tall stainless steel cube was decorated with life-size human statues and semi-submerged in a coral lagoon. The artwork was criticized because it depicted human figures.

Economists have long criticized summer vacation as economically inefficient. But one has come to its defense.

Colson Whitehead and Marlon James headline the longlists of names in contention for the literary prize. Altogether, 50 books across five categories stand a chance at winning in November.

In Nigeria, Burna Boy is known as much for his social crusading as he is for his Afro-fusion style music.

A U.N. report released Thursday evening concludes that high-ranking Syrian and Lebanese security officials were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A car bomb killed Hariri in Beirut in February 2005.

More than 100 people were also wounded. The Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has ties with al-Qaida, claimed responsibility for the attack.

In Northeast Ohio, a combined $300,000 will go toward everything from theater at Karamu House to French poetry translations.