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'Fun Home,' 'Curious Incident' Take Home Top Tony Honors

The Fun Home won best musical, best book and best original score — to name just a few of the honors. The award for best play went to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime.

Pamela Talkin, seen here in October 1991, retired last week as the Supreme Court's first female marshal. Also retiring is Christine Luchok Fallon, the first woman to hold the position of reporter of decisions.

First Women To Hold Top Staff Jobs At Supreme Court Are Retiring

Pamela Talkin was the court's marshal; Christine Luchok Fallon was its reporter of decisions.

Biden Chooses More People To Fill Top Slots In His Administration

President-elect Joe Biden has picked Pete Buttigieg as transportation secretary, ex-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as energy secretary and Gina McCarthy as White House climate coordinator.

Debt ceiling talks to resume between Biden and top congressional leaders

This second discussion comes as the U.S. is quickly approaching the deadline by which the Department of Treasury believes the federal government will run out of money to pay its bills.

Tensions between Ukraine's president and a top general have boiled over

There is growing tension between Ukraine's president and his military chief of staff. If that general loses his job, Ukrainian society could be divided at a crucial time.

Far-Right Candidate Tops First Round Of Austrian Presidential Elections

Voters in Austria totally rejected the mainstream parties in the first round of presidential elections, so the two candidates in Sunday's runoff are from the political fringe, including one from the far right.

The owner of The Red Hen in Lexington, Va., asked White House press secretary Sarah Sanders to leave Friday night. It is not the first time politics has played a role in Trump aides' public dinner plans.

Sarah Sanders Joins List Of Top Trump Aides Confronted At Restaurants

The White House press secretary was asked to leave a Virginia restaurant Friday. Earlier this week, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House adviser Stephen Miller were heckled at restaurants.

The B Reactor is the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor located at the Hanford site in Richland, Wash. The three-story-high block of graphite contains about 2,000 "process tubes" arranged in a grid. These tubes contained uranium, and when enough uranium was brought together, a chain reaction of neutrons turned some of it into plutonium — which became the fissile core of nuclear bombs.

A Peek Inside A Once Top Secret Spot In Atomic Age History

Want to take a tour of the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor? It's in Richland, Wash., and if you're lucky, your guide will be one of the people who worked here when the place was still new. Physicist Paul Vinther signed on at the plant in June 1950, and he now gives tours.

In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021 file photo, visitors take photos of the 3D re-production of Michelangelo's David at the Italy's pavilion at the Dubai Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. One of the most talked about attractions at the world's fair underway in Dubai is a towering statue made of marble dust that's raising eyebrows just as its original form did more than 500 years ago.

Art or censorship? Expo shows just top of famed David statue

When visitors make their way to Italy's pavilion at Dubai Expo 2020, most will only see the head of Michelangelo's famous statue.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, sworn in last week as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she will focus on improving Americans' access to health care. Any discussions of shoring up Medicare funding, she says, should also entail strengthening the program's benefits.

Expanding Health Coverage Is Top Priority For New Head Of Medicare/Medicaid

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the new head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, says she'll focus her time in charge on getting more Americans insured.

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