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We’re far from CLEARING THE SMOKE over recreational marijuana use. A new federal policy announced this past week takes a tough line. It’s a challenge to states that have legalized use, including, most recently, the biggest state of all. Our Cover Story is reported by Barry Petersen: “I’ve never experienced […]

A “friend for life” has been campaigning for years, along with others, to make a California landmark safer. John Blackstone has her story: On a stage in Nashville, songwriter Sarah Lockwood Barr performs songs she’s written that she loves to sing … and one that breaks her heart. “This is […]

A “friend for life” has been campaigning for years, along with others, to make a California landmark safer. John Blackstone has her story: On a stage in Nashville, songwriter Sarah Lockwood Barr performs songs she’s written that she loves to sing … and one that breaks her heart. “This is […]

In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world’s best Latin lessons are given for free. That’s where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He’s managed to convince hundreds of people to dedicate their lives to a language no longer living, reports Brook […]

Legendary astronaut John Young — who twice ventured into space in pioneering two-man Gemini capsules, orbited the moon and then walked on its cratered surface before commanding two space shuttle missions, including the program’s maiden flight — has died, ending one of the most storied careers in space history. NASA […]

Temperatures will dip even lower on Saturday for more than 100 million people from the Great Lakes to much of the East Coast, with wind chills making it feel well below zero. More than 240 flights Saturday have been cancelled due to the arctic blast. Thursday’s powerful blizzard also left […]

Summit conditions at Mount Washington were so brutally cold Saturday morning the temperature tied for the second coldest on Earth, according to Mount Washington Observatory. The temperature hit minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit — with a wind chill of minus 90 (minus 68 degrees Celsius), according to the educational and research […]

Last Updated Jan 6, 2018 9:38 AM EST MONTPELIER, Vt. — Brutally cold conditions that have gripped the East Coast will last most of the weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont. Temperatures were in the single digits from Philadelphia to Boston on Saturday morning and expected to fall closer […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Brutally cold conditions are expected to envelop the East Coast most of this weekend, prompting wind chill warnings from Virginia to Vermont. Temperatures will reach close to zero from Philadelphia to Boston through Saturday night, with wind chills making it feel like minus 10 degrees to minus 20 […]

ATLANTA — A film company faces a citation and fine after a stuntman for “The Walking Dead” fell to his death last year during filming on the hit show’s Georgia set, federal authorities said Friday. John Bernecker, 33, died July 12 from injuries suffered in a fall on the set […]