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The Disappearance and Return of the Original Ground Zero Flag
It showed up on the other side of the country, and Thursday it goes on view at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
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Cattle Drives in Down East Maine
Last night my wife Deb put up a report called “Little Town, Big Art.” It’s about how a…
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Allison Osberg Little Town, Big Art
“The arts” might seem a frill or nicety. In Eastport, Maine, they’ve been at the center of economic and civic plans and have helped the little city “punch above its weight.”
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U.S. Army / Reuters Chelsea Manning's Hunger Strike
The U.S. Army whistleblower said Friday she would “refuse to eat or drink voluntarily” to protest her treatment behind bars.
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AP An Overturned Conviction in the Rutgers Suicide Case
A New Jersey appeals court threw out the 15-count conviction against Dharun Ravi. He will be retried with new charges.
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At the Center of the Devastation
Everyone seems have their own story of the 9/11 attacks, and I recently asked readers to share theirs to…
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Texas Education Agency The Textbook That Calls Mexicans Lazy
Activists and teachers worked for years to get Mexican American Studies into Texas schools, but they don’t want the book the board of education is set to endorse.
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A Journalist in Times Square
I wrote this email to my goddaughter, who grew up in California, on August 28, 2006. She was 10 years…
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Pascal Rossignol / Reuters More Charges in the November Paris Attacks
Austrian prosecutors charged two men suspected of helping organize the operation that killed 130 people.
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Ashley Webb / Flickr A Delaware Crash Leaves I-95 in Less-Than-Mint Condition
A tractor-trailer carrying blank pennies overturned and caught fire Thursday morning, blocking the highway for hours.
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Chris Carlson / AP Tim Tebow's Minor League Contract
The New York Mets announced the former NFL quarterback will participate in the Instructional League.
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Where Were You on September 11, 2001?
I was nowhere near New York or D.C. on September 11, 2001. I was a senior in high school…
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America by Air: Sunrise, Sunset
Reader Amanda sends in two gorgeous photos—the first of sunrise over the Mississippi River, near her hometown of Memphis, Tennessee…
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Jeff Baenen / AP A Minnesota Abduction Solved Nearly 27 Years Later
The man who kidnapped 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling has confessed to the crime and led police to the boy’s remains.
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AP The Toppling of an Iconic Sandstone Formation in Oregon
State officials are investigating a video that shows eight vandals pushing the pedestal down.
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Mike Segar / Reuters Fox News's Settlement With Gretchen Carlson
The network will reportedly pay the former anchor $20 million and has apologized. Meanwhile, Greta Van Susteren, the longtime anchor, is leaving immediately.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Chicago's 500th Homicide of the Year
Over the Labor Day weekend, 13 people were killed and 65 were shot in the deadliest holiday weekend of the summer.
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NASA Goddard MODIS Rapid Response Team Hermine's East Coast Journey
The storm is expected to move further into the Atlantic Ocean in the next few days.
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Courtesy of Erie County Public Library A Waterfront Library
In Erie, Pennsylvania, a public institution is building on its nautical past to open a world of opportunity for local residents.
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James Fallows The World Comes to a Tiny Town: Eastport's Lesson in Globalization
Even the most remote-seeming corners of America can find themselves in the middle of quick-moving global trends.
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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…
