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National Weather Service Significant Flood Outlook for the week of April 23 - 28, 2013.National Weather ServiceFlooding continues to plague the upper…
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(We most recently updated this post at 7:56 a.m. ET. See this note about how we cover news such as this.)One of the two young men suspected in the deadly…
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The first national gun control legislation since the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., is going to be debated on the floor of the Senate and…
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Fourteen people were injured after a stabbing incident at a Houston-area college.The Lone Star College System put its Cy-Fair campus on lockdown on…
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The world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader.As afternoon turned to evening in Vatican City on Wednesday, a little after 7 p.m.…
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Israel and fighters in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip will "hold fire" beginning at 2 p.m. ET, Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr announced at a…
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It's hard to determine just how many veterans became ill because they were at nuclear test sites, but one soldier who witnessed more than 20 bomb explosions in the Nevada desert in 1957 says a lot of good men died because of it.
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The new book The Pun Also Rises, by 1995 O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack, traces the surprising long and rich history of what some people call the lowest form of humor.
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Chef Barton Seaver wants you to look a fish in the eye before you eat it. In a new cookbook, he highlights the importance of sustainable seafood to the long-term viability of our environment and our diets.
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Bill James is best known for his contributions to baseball, but his latest book focuses on another, very different, favorite pastime: crime stories. Popular Crime looks at the effects infamous crimes have had on our culture.