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Earlier Thursday, the Financial Times itself had reported that the newspaper's publisher was on the verge of being sold to German media group Alex Springer.

The spacecraft has detected the nearest thing to Earth yet discovered — a planet that's a bit bigger and squarely inside the "habitable zone" for life.

Julia Pierpont's debut novel opens with a young girl's discovery of her father's infidelity. Maureen Corrigan says that what follows is so unexpected and tense that it's a "fresh pleasure to read."

The GOP presidential candidate's 92-page financial disclosure still doesn't answer the most burning question — exactly how much is the boisterous billionaire businessman worth?

Convicted of first-degree murder, James Holmes faces either a lifetime prison sentence or execution for a Colorado shooting rampage.

Members of Congress have written to the secretary of defense asking him to tell black, Puerto Rican and Japanese-American soldiers that they were unjustly chosen for experiments in WWII.

For generations, the rubber tappers of the Amazon have gone about their business in a way that preserves the rain forest. Today, they are increasingly in conflict with criminal logging gangs.

Justin Trudeau will take office Wednesday as prime minister after last month's election win. Conservatives were in power for nearly a decade. Steve Inskeep talks to James Baxter of iPolitics.

Ohio voters trounced a state constitutional amendment that would have legalized recreational and medicinal use of marijuana. But the night was not a total loss for marijuana advocates.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced a "remedy program" for cars with defective airbags from Takata Corporation and fined the company $70 million.