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Summer Adventure: 5 Thrilling, Chilling, Far-Ranging Reads

Book reviewer Alan Cheuse picks five exciting summer reads, ranging from short stories of grim Irish mayhem to a North Carolina lynching and a corpse in an iceberg, to Southern California cocaine capers and a pure-trash adventure starring U.S. special forces and a world-threatening comet.

Veterans are often found at Washington's war memorials, like the one to U.S. service members who died in Vietnam, recalling lost buddies and lost youth.

Monday Political Mix: GOP To Keep Obamacare Fans On Defensive

It's Veteran's Day 2013. Our deepest thanks to those who've worn the nation's uniform both home and abroad and made countless sacrifices to serve it with courage and integrity.

Jim Wolf of Grand Rapids, Mich. The Army veteran was transformed for a video that the maker hopes will convince people to look at the homeless differently.

Homeless Veteran's Makeover Goes Viral: VIDEO

On this Veterans Day, a video showing a homeless veteran's transformation as a stylist cuts his hair, trims his beard and puts him in a new suit, is going viral. It's already drawn more than 10 million views in just 5 days.

Hospitals Have Got Your Back, Maybe A Little Too Quickly

The latest Medicare data show that doctors frequently order MRI scans for patients with back pain before trying recommended treatments such as physical therapy.

'Trans Bodies, Trans Selves': A Modern Manual By And For Trans People

Modeled after the groundbreaking feminist health manual Our Bodies, Ourselves, the book details the social, political and medical issues faced by transgender people.

Injured veterans, wearing bright yellow shirts, head out to the waves at La Jolla Shores to learn how to surf during the Veterans National Summer Sports Clinic on Sept. 16, 2013.

Injured Veterans Find Healing In Surfing At Summer Sports Clinic

More than 100 injured veterans from across the U.S. are in San Diego this week for the 6th National Veterans Summer Sports Clinic. They're learning life-changing skills through sports and recreational activities.

Mingxiong Huang PHD with his research subject, Col. G.I. Wilson, in the MEG brain scanner at UCSD's radiology lab. May 11th 2011

MEG Brain Scan Tracks Scars Of Traumatic Brain Injury

UCSD and the VA Medical Center in San Diego are researching ways to establish physical proof of invisible injuries in the brain.

September Is Suicide Prevention Month For U.S. Navy

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has called suicide an epidemic in the military. In September, the Navy will focus on efforts to prevent suicide within its ranks, by promoting intervention, communication, and better ways to navigate stress.

Protesters shut down Interstate 5 North near Nobel Drive in San Diego, Nov. 26, 2014.

San Diegans Protest Ferguson Decision, Briefly Block Interstate 5 North

Hundreds of San Diegans protested the decision by a Missouri grand jury not to charge white police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man.

Kmart's plan to be open for 41 straight hours beginning at 6 a.m. Thanksgiving morning is drawing criticism. At this Kmart store in Connecticut, shoppers wait in line to take advantage of sales on Thanksgiving Day.

41 Hours Of Retail: Kmart's Black Friday Plan Is Criticized

It's only been hours since Kmart announced its Black Friday plan -- to remain open for 41 hours in a row beginning early on Thanksgiving Day. But online critics are throwing a red light on the plan, with some calling the company a Grinch for its aggressive approach to the start of the Christmas shopping season.

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