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When the century began, golf course design and development were in a very different place. Hundreds of new courses were opening annually, including dozens of stand-alone, upscale daily-fee facilities ...

Anthropic has struck a deal to help redesign the computer-coding curricula taught in hundreds of community and state colleges, revving up the race among tech companies to get their AI tools into the ...

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's campaign to remake landmarks of the nation's capital in his image expanded into the realm of golf this week with his administration's termination of leases on ...

Washington — The Trump administration has terminated the National Links Trust's lease with the National Park Service to manage, operate and renovate Washington, D.C.'s three municipal golf courses, ...

Golfers play East Potomac's fifth hole as trucks unload debris and soil from the demolition of the White House's East Wing on Oct. 24. Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images The Trump administration has ...

WASHINGTON—President Trump needed a place to dump all the dirt from his demolition of the White House’s East Wing. One idea floated by aides: haul it to the Ellipse, a park that abuts the White House, ...

The public course was designed in 1998 by legendary golf architect Pete Dye and his son P.B. The Dyes had a family lake house just down the road. Irsay bought the course in 2019 for $1.4 million and ...