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Pakistani earthquake aid hampered by insurgent attacks, death toll reaches 515

Photo by BANARAS KHAN/AFP/Getty Images. As Pakistani and regional government officials attempt to administer rescue and relief aid to areas affected by a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, insurgents launched attacks on military forces in a region that BBC's Shahzeb…

What We're Watching Friday

By News Desk

Good morning. It's the last day of the week, but the news continues on! Here are some of the stories that PBS NewsHour is watching for Friday. Climate Change: Humans are to blame The United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel…

Cantaloupe farmers arrested for listeria outbreak that killed 33

Photo by Kabsik Park/Flickr. Federal prosecutors arrested and charged two farmers, Ryan and Eric Jensen with various misdemeanors relating to a 2011 outbreak of listeria.

Fewer women among top political contributors in 2012 than in 1990

Women in California celebrate the re-election of President Barack Obama. Photo courtesy of John Rose. The 2012 election put the spotlight on women. First, national Democrats seized on the rape remarks of a handful of Republicans whom they claimed were…

How your education level relates to your likelihood of dancing

Photo by Flickr user terrellcwoods How often do you conga, cut a rug, disco or shimmy? If you have a college degree, chances are more likely you've done so in the past year. Really? Really says the…

Scientists create lightsaber ... sort of

Gage Skidmore/Flickr Harvard scientists have created a lightsaber. Before you start thinking of amputating arms, they didn't actually 'create' a lightsaber. Instead, a joint Harvard-MIT research team has "managed to coax photons into binding together to form molecules",…

Tonight on NewsHour: What Deals Does Congress Have Left to Make?

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images "It's a Rubik's cube of hell. It's changing every 15 minutes."Ron Bonjean of Singer Bonjean Strategies, on budget talks in Congress "We've got to drain the poison from the swamp."Jim…

Graham Nash looks back on his music career in his new memoir, 'Wild Tales'

Graham Nash, famed rocker and music activist, has released a new memoir titled "Wild Tales." In the early to mid-1960's, Nash had numerious number one pop hits with the British band, "The Hollies" and eventually helped found the eponymous…

#throwbackthursday

Few can say they've ever spent the day in a duck blind with @billclinton. #tbt #throwbackthursday pic.twitter.com/uoAFtCbbny— John Dingell (@john_dingell) September 26, 2013…

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor's 50-year sentence upheld

A UN-backed special court in The Hague upheld former Liberian President Charles Taylor's conviction and 50-year sentence today. Taylor is the first former head of state convicted of war crimes since the Nuremberg trials after World War II.