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Gas line break creates massive fireball in W. Va.
We're updating this story as information comes in.
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Gotta wear shades: Solar installations hit new annual record
Solar power installations are up this year, making for enough capacity to power more than a million households. But Fox News is worried!
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In Boston, battling for bikes with (gasp!) civility and kindness
Jackie Douglas is crusading to make Beantown’s streets safer for pedestrians and cyclists, but you won’t hear her calling names.
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How did Newark Mayor Cory Booker do on his food stamp challenge?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker lived on food stamps for a week, and figured out being poor and not drinking coffee sucks.
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Van Jones on Obama: Climate will be ‘the issue he’s judged on’
The president's former green jobs czar thinks growing public concern over climate change obligates Obama to take leadership on the issue.
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The Arctic’s beautiful frost flowers are home to millions of microbes
University of Washington graduate student Jeff Bowman and professor Jody Demind traveled to the central Arctic ocean to study these beautiful structures, called frost flowers.
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Kindle died? Reuse it as a spatula, toboggan, or chastity belt
We are very much into creative reuse, so we cannot help but be excited about 101 Uses of a Dead Kindle.
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Milk sales have declined sharply, perhaps because we aren’t all babies
Declining sales point to the fact that fewer Americans are drinking milk. Philip Bump offers an explanation -- plus reasons why it's gross anyway.
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Judge orders two-week halt to Keystone XL pipeline construction
A Texas judge ruled there was sufficient evidence that TransCanada had misled landowners about what would really be flowing through its pipeline.
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London has been invaded by a giant duck
50-foot seafaring rubber duckies: the hot new mode of transportation.
