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Librarian Abdel Kader Haidara organized a smuggling operation to keep centuries-old manuscripts out of the hands of al-Qaida. Joshua Hammer wrote about it in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

After the storm rakes its way across the South and Mid-Atlantic it will likely take aim at New England, which has already experienced a record-setting winter.

Despite this week’s rain showers and cool temperatures, state and local fire officials are warning, come summer and fall, San Diego County could be poised for one of its worst fire seasons ever.

Pieces of gravel and dust from a "rock comet" called 3200 Phaethon are still shooting across the sky, dazzling the Earthlings below.

In the fiercest fighting in weeks, pro-Russian separatists appear to have renewed a push to seize the city's airport.

"There has been enough rain across Texas during May to cover the entire state nearly 8 inches deep," says the National Weather Service in Fort Worth.

Author Tracy Daugherty's new biography of Joan Didion is an honest attempt to construct a coherent narrative about her — but critic Michael Schaub says it doesn't completely work.

Clinton made it clear she's ready to incorporate much of Sanders' populist, anti-Wall Street message into her own campaign. She said "more dreams die in the parking lots of banks than anywhere else."

Voters' minds are stubborn, and politicians habitually spout falsehoods. That doesn't mean fact-checking is a failure, though.

A report by the nonprofit Police Foundation examining the incident in Stockton, Calif., says the number of shots fired was "unnecessary." It also found that some officers "inexplicably opened fire."