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The earthquake that shook Chile last weekend was powerful enough to push up the Andes a few feet, shift Earth's axis and even speed up the planet’s spin. Ross Stein, a geophysicist at the U.S. Geological Survey, explains the fallout of the quake and the physics that triggered it.

Many tribal lands in the U.S. don't have electricity yet have a tremendous capacity to produce it from clean energy sources. Only one tribe is currently operating a utility-scale energy facility, as bureaucratic red tape and tax disincentives are hindering renewable energy development on Indian land.

Sam Raimi Returns to Horror... and Humor

Seventy-five American silent films that were thought lost for more than 80 years are finally coming home. They were discovered in the vaults of The New Zealand Film Archive and include films by The Grapes of Wrath director John Ford and landmark female directors Mabel Normand and Lois Weber.

The United States is still on daylight-saving time, despite what your clock might tell you. Congress moved the date for changing to next weekend, but many preset clocks on cell phones and public displays rolled back an hour by themselves.

The world's largest pop culture convention begins today in San Diego. Over 125,000 fans will descend on downtown for Comic-Con, International. Movies, TV, comics, science fiction and video games will all be celebrated at this year's convention.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on legislation re-regulating Wall Street — a top priority for President Obama. Republicans say it is too soon to take up the bill. That amounts to a filibuster; and Democrats will need 60 votes to override it — one more than the 59 they control. Democrats say it's time to consider doing away with the procedural move.

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Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the former U.S. commander of the Abu Ghraib prison, says the decision to abuse detainees was made much higher up the chain of command. Karpinsksi also tells the BBC that the current Iraq prisons chief, Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, had suggested Karpinksi alter interrogation techniques at Abu Ghraib and once said prisoners should be treated "like dogs." Suzanne Chislett reports.

After a grueling tour in Afghanistan, the men of the Second Platoon of Charlie Company were ready to go home. But the reinforcements sent to replace them weren't prepared for the brutal combat they encountered. Brian Mockenhaupt reports on the joint mission with the untried artillery unit.