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Dutch architect and Pritzker Prize laureate Rem Koolhaas's first U.S. project opens to the public Saturday in Chicago. The student center at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) campus has bright orange glass and a stainless steel tube on top that the Chicago elevated train passes through. Edward Lifson of Chicago Public Radio reports.

Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ has astonished Hollywood by recording blockbuster ticket sales. The Passion remains the nation's top film for a second straight weekend, taking in $53.2 million. In the 12 days since its release, the film has earned a total of $213.9 million. NPR's Kim Masters reports.

HBO ran over the competition at last night's Emmy Awards, taking 16 awards. The cable channel's Angels in America, a mini-series about the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, took seven honors. The Sopranos won for best drama. Sarah Jessica Parker and Kelsey Grammer took top comedy acting honors.

The list of the top-performing college endowments came out Thursday. Yale University's investments have beaten the S&P 500's performance for the last five years. Marketplace's Steve Tripoli explains how college endowments work and how schools like Yale manage to beat the market year after year.

Starting this summer, 800 executives and top product managers will pack up their desks in Connecticut and move to Boston.

Top-seeded Clemson tangles with Oklahoma this afternoon and number-two seed Alabama plays the Michigan State Spartans tonight.

The latest batch of national assessment tests shows New Hampshire students remaining among the highest achievers in math and reading.The 2015 National…

The South Dakota Republican blasted the plan, calling it an "agenda of top-down policies of the past to tax, spend and regulate."

People from China are considered the world's top tourists, spending more on average than people from other countries.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with the school's dean of admissions about why it made the move, and whether other top-tier universities might do the same.