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In this Feb. 6, 2014, file photo, Washington, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray joins the Congressional Black Caucus on the national day of prayer to remember the poor and homeless, at the Capitol in Washington.

Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said Russia's strongarm tactics in its former satellite could make it harder for the eight nations on the Arctic Council to reach agreements at a time when the region faces a series of critical issues.

The conference was sponsored by WisDOT. WisDOT, WTBA and ACEC partnered to create ways to improve their working relationships and better understand all party's common goals.

What you'll see: On the north Peninsula, 17,800 vehicles on Interstate 280 pass by Junipero Serra County Park in a peak hour, 221,000 in a day, according to Caltrans.

Under an I-25 overpass, one block from a power plant and almost 1,000 miles from home, I catch a whiff of Wisconsin in Denver.

A visitor can feel as though they've left the U.S. altogether - and now they are the foreigner, a tourist in their own city.

At 92, Phyllis Gould, one of the nation's original Rosie the Riveter welders during WWII, has just a few things left on her bucket list.

Many US cities have quintessential sights and sounds: San Francisco's clanging cable cars, New Orleans and its raucous Mardi Gras, and Washington's political mudslinging.

Veronica Welch is the founder of Style Fashion Week, the city's premiere industry-only event.

Alexander Beggins met his future Wild Child bandmate, Kelsey Wilson, a couple of days before they were supposed to go on tour a few years ago as part of the backing band for a Danish musician, Bjarke Bendsten, otherwise known as Migrant.

Everything is cheaper in Hemet than San Francisco, including $4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies.

East Bay Assemblyman Rob Bonta last year took in a performance by a hip-hop dance crew called the Jabbawockeez at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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Mayors of some of America's biggest cities said Thursday that cities, not Washington, D.C., are driving the country's economic growth.

Wedding bells are ringing and you're headed to Vancouver, the verdant metropolis of British Columbia that has enjoyed legal same-sex marriage since 2003.

Los Angeles talent agency ICM Partners is working on plans to hold dual Summer Rocks music festivals in downtown St. Louis' Gateway Mall, beginning the Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends in 2015.

Google's mystery barge floated Thursday to its new home in the California delta after the Internet company was ordered to move it from San Francisco.

Waiting for a bus in her heavily immigrant Los Angeles neighborhood, cleaning lady Yesenia Hernandez looked up at a new apartment block across the street that will boast such luxuries as a rooftop pool and dog park, with rents far beyond her reach.

President Barack Obama signs the Affordable Health Care for America Act during a ceremony with fellow Democrats in the East Room of the White House March 23, 2010 in Washington, DC.

Behind the blue facepaint, skull cap, nondescript clothing, sealed lips and inexplicable movement is a real person acting as one of the egoless humanoids with the vastly popular Blue Man Group.