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On the first night of the Caps’ annual Mentors’ Trip in Chicago, the Caps players and staff and their mentors assembled for a team dinner in a large ballroom at the team’s hotel in the Windy City.

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As the first president of the United States, George Washington is one of the most recognizable figures in American history. That’s thanks in part to his portrait on the $1 bill. Now, one of the ...

The Boise State football program made a name for itself in the late 2000s and early 2010s as the little team from Idaho with the blue turf that could take on giants. From beating the mighty Oklahoma ...

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Dan North, a senior economist with Allianz Trade Americas, told the Washington Examiner that while the headline jobs number for September was better than expected, downward revisions for previous ...