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Dwane Powell: Sen. Burr and the return of the torture report

Dwane Powell on Sen. Richard Burr, the Senate Intelligence Committee and the torture report he wants...

“Boyhood” received six Oscar nominations.

On Culture: Are indie films dead?

As the Sundance Film Festival convenes in Utah, columnist Craig Lindsey ponders whether independent...

Sports

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski speaks with guard Quinn Cook.

Duke players excited about being part of Coach K’s 1000th win

Duke plays St. John’s on Sunday, the first chance for Mike Krzyzewski to win his 1,000th game. Jahlil Okafor said one reason he came to Duke was to help Coach K get his milestone win.

This year, hundreds of thousands of tourists are expected to attend events at former battlefields and other historic sites marking the sesquicentennial of the end of the war. Many are surprised to see black troops on the battlefields, but interest...

Business

Tip’d Off founders, from left, Akshay Oberai and Rahul Sethuram watch fellow founder Koosh Saxena write notes at their office last month in Mountain View, Calif. The startup uses social networking to put young investors in touch with each other.

Millennials use tech tools to jump into investing

It’s the Facebookification of financial investing.

Politics

Durham Riverside High School math teacher Steve Unruhe, center, takes extra time with one of his AP calculus students to help him understand the day’s lesson on polar curves Thursday. Unruhe, a math and journalism teacher, will retire in June 2015, partly because of the loss of longevity pay.

NC teachers lose bonus pay, but others still cash in

Legislators have ended longevity bonuses for teachers but kept it for many other state employees, including their own. One veteran teacher, who is retiring, says the action was “a slap in the face.”

Nation/World News

Members of the St. Rose of Lima Parish of Paso Robles, Calif., arrive to the “Walk for Life” rally and march in San Francisco on Saturday, Jan. 24, 2015. Thousands of abortion opponents gathered at Civic Center Plaza in front of City Hall for the 11th annual event before marching down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza.

State legislatures advance 20-week abortion ban Congress couldn’t pass

Republicans on Capitol Hill this week suffered an embarrassing defeat after being forced to drop legislation that would have outlawed abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. But similar legislation is likely to advance in state capitols around the...

Living

Carlos Chavez, 5, gives Dustin Hitt, dressed as a NASA astronaut, a high-five during Astronomy Days at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Saturday. Hitt is an Exhibits Technician for NASA Langley.

Exhibit at Raleigh museum brings space close to home

During Astronomy Days, a two-day space exhibit at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, visitors talked to experts from NASA, the Raleigh Astronomy Club, professors and museum staff about galaxies far, far away.

Entertainment

Marsha Gordon and Skip Elsheimer, shown in a storage room at the A/V Geeks office, worked together to get a documentary called “Felicia,” about an African-American teenager in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, added to the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry.

‘Felicia’ brings the past to light, with a little help from A/V Geeks and an NC State professor

Among the new additions to the National Film Registry is “Felicia,” an obscure but revealing 1965 documentary about pre-riot Watts in Los Angeles that would be decaying in a landfill if not for the efforts of two people from Raleigh...