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The Retirement of a Dallas Police Chief
David Brown became a national figure after a gunman killed five law-enforcement officers in Texas last month.
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Quoted: The Health and Safety Edition
“I want to literally make people smarter by jamming things in their brains,” —Vivienne Ming, a theoretical neurophysicist…
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Eastport Update: Electric Power From the Sea
Early in 2014, I wrote a magazine article about the 1,300 residents of Eastport, Maine, with the title “…
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Mike Groll / AP The 12-Year-Old Freshman at Cornell
Jeremy Shuler was reading in two languages at age 2.
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John Raoux / AP Florida's First Hurricane in a Decade
Hurricane Hermine hit the state’s panhandle coast Friday morning and left a trail of damage and flooding.
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Beck Diefenbach / Reuters Brock Turner's Three-Month Jail Sentence
The former Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman will serve half of his original punishment because of “good behavior.”
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America by Air: Alongside a Rainstorm
Genuine thunderstorms, of the type that form a long line when a cold front is moving across the country into…
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Pat Little / AP Penn State's Commemoration of its Disgraced Football Coach
The university will commemorate the former head coach Joe Paterno five years after he was fired for covering up a sex-abuse scandal.
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AP John Hinckley Nears Freedom
The man who shot President Reagan will be freed on September 10 and will live in Virginia with his mother.
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Jim Young / Reuters The Deadliest Month for Chicago in 20 Years
In August, 90 people were killed and 472 shot. The city this year now has more homicides than New York and Los Angeles combined.
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John Bazemore / AP A Former Officer Indicted for Murder
James Burns shot 22-year-old Deravis Caine Rogers in the head on June 22 in Atlanta.
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NASA The Hurricanes Headed for Hawaii and Florida
The National Weather Service has upgraded a tropical storm headed for Florida to hurricane status.
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters Stormy Weather, Bound for Hawaii and Florida
Back-to-back hurricanes are expected to narrowly miss Hawaii, while a severe storm will reach Florida by the end of the week.
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Scott Roth / Invision / AP Chris Brown's Bad Tuesday
The singer posted bond after being arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at a woman in his California home.
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Matt York / AP The Beginning of the End for Private Migrant-Detention Centers?
Remarks by the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security could foreshadow a major shift in policy and likely appease immigrant-rights advocates.
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Jose Cabezas / Reuters Are the Clown Sightings in South Carolina Real?
Police in Greenville are increasing patrols after reports of attempts to lure children into the woods, despite little evidence the clowns exist.
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America by Air: A Busy Harbor in the Rust Belt
Reader Jim Ciszewski answers our call for photos from Indiana: Taken on a recent trip from GSO…
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Notes From the Rest of the Country: 'Now That I've Got a Look at This Place, It's Not So Bad!'
My wife Deb and I are on the road again this week, but as a reminder of the ongoing theme…
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Ringo H.W. Chiu / AP No Need for Panic at LAX
Passengers at Los Angeles International Airport ran onto the tarmac to escape what turned out to be false reports of a shooter.
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Mark Burns An Explorer’s Ode to America’s National Parks
A 160,000-mile quest to visit all 59 of the country's natural treasures
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Hugh Gentry / Reuters The World's Biggest Marine Refuge: 442,000 Square Miles, 7,000 Species, 5 Sunken Aircraft Carriers
President Obama quadrupled the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on Friday, protecting a wide swath of ocean near Hawaii.
