1 . Conservatives care most about the size of government. They may have rallied around President Ronald Reagan’s call for smaller government three decades ago — but it’s not the 1980s anymore. Today, conservatives don’t want a reduced government so much as one that works better and wastes less. Read full article > >

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Five myths about conservative voters

The first American case of mad cow disease since 2006 was found this week in a dairy cow in California, but the animal had not been slaughtered for food, government officials said. Known formally as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, the infection decimated English cattle herds in the 1980s and 1990s. It was also linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Read full article > >

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Mad cow disease discovered in California animal, but food supply declared safe

When Michael Kahn took over the Shakespeare Theatre in the 1980s, he felt the best way to put the struggling troupe on the map was to open the doors for a day while Stacy Keach and the cast rehearsed “Richard III.” Read full article > >

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More D.C. theaters open rehearsals to the public

A multimedia archive of life in the UK in the 1980s and the modern day is put on display at the National Museum of Computing.

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Reinvented Domesday exhibit opens

The associate head basketball coach Bernie Fine was placed on administrative leave after ESPN reported that he molested a team ball boy in the 1980s.

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Syracuse Assistant Is Accused of Sexual Abuse

Recording artist Heavy D, the self-proclaimed “overweight lover” of hip-hop who became one of rap’s biggest stars in the 1980s, dies in Los Angeles.

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Hip-hop star Heavy D dies aged 44

As the 1980s drew to a close, the members of U2 had that special problem of being too successful and too full of themselves. Their steady build toward superstardom came to fruition with “The Joshua Tree,” sending them on a global stadium tour, part of which was chronicled in a tediously important, black-and-white documentary called “Rattle and Hum,” in which their earnest enthusiasm for rootsy blues and rock verged on the embarrassingly pedantic. Read full article > >

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‘From the Sky Down’: U2, looking back on a funk

Mr. Savage, with his trademark sunglasses, bandannas and raspy voice, was one of the most recognizable professional wrestlers of the 1980s and ’90s as the character Macho Man.

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Randy Savage, Pro Wrestling’s Macho Man, Dies at 58

A man accused of two double murders in Pembrokeshire in the 1980s is shown a shotgun on which traces of one of the victim’s blood was found.

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Murder accused is shown shotgun

A man accused of two double murders in Pembrokeshire in the 1980s tells a jury he was at home the night a brother and sister were shot.

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Accused ‘at home during shooting’

A man accused of two double murders in Pembrokeshire in the 1980s told police he couldn’t explain how a victim’s blood came to be found on clothing recovered from his home.

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Blood on shorts at accused’s home

Results so far in the local elections suggest that the Liberal Democrats are facing their worst defeat since the 1980s.

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VIDEO: Clegg: ‘We need to dust ourselves down’

One of the 1980s most popular computers is going on sale again, but with modern technology under the bonnet.

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Classic Commodore 64 lives again

One of the 1980s most popular computers is going on sale again, but with modern technology under the bonnet.

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80s revival – Commodore 64 makes a comeback

The murder trial starts of a man accused of having “executed” four people in Pembrokeshire in the 1980s.

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Four ‘executed in double murders’