One major goal in many video games is to progress far enough to unlock new items or upgrades to make the player stronger or to make the game easier to play. These unlockables have long been tied to gameplay...

The memo written by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, R-California, was released on Friday after weeks of being hyped up by the Grand Old Party. Only four pages long, the memo was conceived by...

The Patriots always win, and they have been to the Super Bowl eight times since 2001, according to Sports Illustrated. Under quarterback Tom Brady and head coach Bill Belichick, five of their past eight...

Walking through campus it is not uncommon to see fellow students or even faculty exhaling large white clouds. In the past five years the tobacco industry has seen an explosion in the use of portable e-cigarette...

According to the 2016 Gallup News poll on trust in the media, only 32 percent of Americans say they trust the media, which is down from 40 percent in 2015. The Gallup News poll on trust in media has...

“It’s the curse of the standard, that the first of the Mathers discs set/Always in search of the verse I haven’t spit yet/Will this step just be another misstep/To tarnish whatever legacy, love or...

One of the first things that comes to mind when thinking of college towns is the underground music scene, and Boone is no different. With bars and venues such as Black Cat, Boone Saloon, The Local and...

During the last week of December, former Vine star and current YouTuber Logan Paul uploaded a series of video blogs, known as vlogs, showcasing Paul and his video production team’s visit to Japan. The...

On Jan. 9, a federal court in North Carolina ruled that the congressional districts drawn by the Republican legislature were illegally gerrymandered due to excessive amounts partisanship in favor of the...

The first time I joined The Appalachian, I was a shy freshman, unsure of myself and what I wanted to do with my life. I wandered into the newspaper’s interest meeting just a few weeks after I arrived...

Net neutrality is the principle that everyone has the right to equal access to the internet. This means that no matter where one goes on the internet, the experience should remain unimpeded by influence...

On Nov. 24, President Donald Trump tweeted that he was turning down TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year honor. “Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named ‘Man (Person) of...