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Cultural products like books, movies and song lyrics can tell us a lot about society and how it changes over time. KPBS arts reporter Angela Carone says a new study from San Diego State looks at how books reflect changing gender roles.

The debut novel of Robin Sloan, a former Twitter and Current TV employee, tells the thoughtful, magical story of Clay, a worker in a mysterious literary emporium. Aside from the occasional groaner insight, the buoyant narrative demonstrates Sloan's gift of charismatic prose.

The prime minister of Thailand has declared a state of emergency and is rushing home from President Bush's U.N. speech as reports suggest the Southeast Asian nation's military may be staging a coup.

The last NASA space shuttle mission into space has ended. Atlantis and its four crew members arrived at the Kennedy Space Center just before 6 a.m. ET.

Navy SEAL Impersonators on the Rise (Video)

In an unusual partnership, Google Earth has joined with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to focus its high-tech lens and high-powered search on the atrocities in Darfur. The goal of the project, launched Tuesday, is to inform and motivate users.

Watch what you post! Twitter, Facebook, Linked-in, logging on to social media, could keep you from landing that great job.

Few American mothers could fathom a situation that would force them to leave their children in order to put food in their bellies, clothes on their backs and send them to school. But this is the reality for many Filipina women, who cross oceans in search of jobs that pay enough to provide for their families back home.

America's privacy concerns go back to the origins of the country itself. And in the wake ofrevelations about the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, polls show the country has mixed feelings; Fox News, CBS News and Gallup all find that more than half of all Americans don't approve of the NSA collecting phone and Internet records. Young Americans feel just as ambivalent as older generations when asked about the surveillance activity.

Thailand's army has taken control of Bangkok in an apparent bloodless coup timed to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's visit to the United States. Military leaders revoked the constitution, but they have also promised a return to democracy.