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A Northern California wildfire raging out of control on Friday grew from 99 square miles to more than 165 square miles as it spread inside the border of Yosemite National Park.

Think your job is bad? Quit whining, unless you're a shrimper in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jhumpa Lahiri's new novel, The Lowland, is on the long list for the National Book Award and the shortlist for the Man Booker. Critic Maureen Corrigan says Lahiri should start making room in her trophy cabinet; The Lowland is a beautiful tale of a family transformed by political violence.

Veterans groups and other military organizations are singing the praises today of Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords following the tragic shooting in Tuscon. Still in critical condition but expected to survive, Giffords, in addition to being a Congresswoman, is also a military spouse (seen here on the cover of Military Spouse magazine) who married U.S. Navy Captain and astronaut Mark E. Kelly in November 2007.

On Thanksgiving Day in 1997, gunmen linked to Tijuana’s Arellano Felix drug cartel tried to kill Jesus Blancornelas. During the attack, Blancornelas’s bodyguard died. Blancornelas was badly injured.

The coroner who concluded a girl died after she was twice run over by rescue trucks racing toward a burning plane disputes a different conclusion from city officials who say she was already dead from the impact of falling out of the crashing jet.

Six brand new Challenger corporate jets sit on a showroom floor waiting to be picked up here at the Bombardier Aerospace plant on the outskirts of Montreal. Manager Frank Richie watches as technicians polish the gleaming aircraft and make last-minute adjustments. Each one is personalized, from the leather trim inside to the fancy paint job on its exterior.

Steve Beshear couldn't help but chuckle during the State of the Union speech when President Obama said, "Kentucky's not the most liberal part of the country."

A new book looks at how the military and Hollywood directors teamed up during the war. The films they made helped show Americans what was at stake, and served as evidence during the Nuremberg Trials.

As editor, Bradlee led the newspaper to national eminence through charm, drive, instinct and, most notably, an epic confrontation with the Nixon White House. He was 93.