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Some people feel awkward about eating alone in restaurants but a new eatery in Amsterdam has only small tables with single chairs. It requires customers come solo. The restaurant is part culinary endeavor, part social experiment. As its creator says, she wanted to give people "food for thought."

Unlike many places in America where Latinos are a relatively new minority group, Texas Hispanics were there before white Anglos. In some ways, having once been part of Mexico has lessened the tensions between whites and Latinos. But that's not always the case.

We ask visitors on the National Mall about independence and they tell us about the freedoms that are the most important to them.

The coup that removed democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi from office sets the stage for what could be violent protests by his supporters. Interim leader Adly Mansour is supposed to be in office only until new elections can be held.

Tourists have been flocking to Death Valley for the 100th anniversary of the hottest day ever recorded there, or anywhere else on earth for that matter. They've been frying eggs on the pavement. For a proper fried egg, the Park Service says use a skillet and use a lid to keep in the moisture.

State troopers and local law enforcement agencies are stepping up patrols during the long Fourth of July holiday weekend. Sixty-nine police and sheriff's…

It was quite a surprise Wednesday for Pamela Knox of Toledo when her car dropped beneath a street. Check out the scene.

The Mobile County school system has agreed not to suspend students for minor infractions such as not tucking a shirt in or being late to class. The…

Audie Cornish speaks with John Conkling, technical director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, about why it's so difficult to achieve the color blue in fireworks.

For the first time in a long while, Congress is on recess — an actual recess, without the so-called pro-forma gaveling in and gaveling out staged every few days to technically remain in session and thereby prevent President Obama from making recess appointments that don't need Senate approval. A kind of gentleman's agreement brought this about.