Barbara Bush Changed With Her Country
The former first lady was notably eager to learn about people she didn’t understand—and recognize she might have been wrong about them.
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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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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Quoted: The Health and Safety Edition
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James Fallows Eastport Update: Electric Power From the Sea
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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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Deborah Fallows America by Air: Alongside a Rainstorm
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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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Tony Gutierrez / AP 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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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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Jim Ciszewski America by Air: A Busy Harbor in the Rust Belt
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James Fallows Notes From the Rest of the Country: 'Now That I've Got a Look at This Place, It's Not So Bad!'
