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"Stories are compasses and architecture," says author Rebecca Solnit. "We navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be lost in the vastness of the world."

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in an area that once connected the two continents.

Officials in the nation's capital and a Virginia suburb tell residents to boil their tap water because of a problem with D.C.'s water treatment system.

The National Transportation Safety Board says altimeter in the Black Hawk helicopter may have malfunctioned before the DCA midair collision with an American Airlines jet. All 67 people aboard died.

Federal authorities have restricted helicopter flights near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The move comes days after a deadly collision between a passenger jet and a military helicopter.

Recovery efforts are underway in Kentucky where widespread flooding has killed at least 11 people and displaced hundreds. The state is also preparing for even more severe weather in coming days.

Far out in the Atlantic Ocean is a chain of volcanic islands — a province of Portugal. We escape tor a mountain trek among the dairy cows and waterfalls of Sao Miguel island in the Azores.

Danville, Va., might be the model of how to turn things around for struggling American downtowns.

Heavy rain is expected to return to Southern California Friday after flash flooding, power outages and mudslides pummeled the region during the week.

President Trump's beautification project of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become plagued with a robust algae bloom, despite a $14 million investment and a coating of "American flag blue."