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Bonnie Jo Campbell's confessional, unforgettable new story collection gives a voice to mothers and daughters, struggling to get by, desperate to be heard, but despairing of an audience.

Relief has begun trickling into Myanmar after the weekend's devastating Cyclone Nargis. James East of World Vision, one of the few aid agencies with a longstanding presence there, talks about the challenges ahead.

The administrator of the worst-affected area, the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province, said more bodies were recovered Sunday, including many found floating in Lake Kivu.

In The Twilight War, historian David Crist outlines the secret history of America's 30-year conflict with Iran. Based on interviews with hundreds of officials as well as classified military archives, the book details how the covert war has repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare.

British police estimated that up to 100,000 marchers participated. The crowds, carrying Palestinian flags, also demanded that Israel discontinue deadly airstrikes in the enclave.

Traci Thomas of "The Stacks" podcast has been turning to books to give her more insight into the crisis in Israel and Gaza.

The Michigan attorney general's office said the state prosecution of former Gov. Rick Snyder and other officials for their roles in the Flint water scandal has ended.

Like an ursine Sarah Connor, Grazer is one tough mother. She preemptively attacks huge males that might threaten her offspring. And she's focused on the future, eating all the salmon she can catch.

A volcano in Iceland erupted Saturday evening for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky.

A part of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after the Dali, a nearly 1,000-foot-long container ship, crashed into it.