Napa's surprise fault line triggers earthquake study of the region

When a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit California's wine country this summer, scientists rushed to California Highway Patrol helicopters to survey the scene. The results were surprising. The earthquake tore up to the surface, producing a 9-mile-long scar that sliced through vineyards, asphalt and even homes. A buried earthquake fault had awoken along a trail never before documented or mapped by scientists, stunning homeowners who found houses spun off their foundations and broken...

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'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts see high-school basketball team disinvited from event

A high school basketball tournament on the Northern California coast has become the latest flashpoint in nationwide protests over police killings of unarmed black men. The boys and girls varsity basketball teams from Mendocino High School were disinvited from a tournament that starts on Monday at nearby Fort Bragg High, because of concerns players would wear T-shirts with the words “I Can’t Breathe” printed on them while warming up.

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A Long Hungry Look

Rare images from an unpublished 1950 Life Magazine project record the legacy of racial segregation in photographer Gordon Parks’s Kansas hometown.

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American Barbershops: A Vanishing Act?

Why neighborhood barbershops are hanging on by a hair.

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This Was an Epic year for Droughts, Floods, and Extreme Weather

Extreme heat, record-breaking floods, and a terrifying tornado in oil country -- all in all, a year we can't afford to forget.

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One Dead And 15,000 Stranded In French Alps

Around 15,000 vehicles are stuck in the French Alps as heavy snow blankets roads leading to the region's popular ski resorts. The snow and ice hit as holidaymakers travelled to and from ski resorts in the Savoie region in southeastern France. Authorities have set up shelters in 12 towns to cope with the number of travellers forced to leave their cars. The freezing conditions caused the death of a 27-year-old man whose car slid into a ravine in the...

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Kamloops hot dog stand explodes, injuring two

Two people are in hospital in Kamloops after a hotdog stand exploded outside a Canadian Tire on Saturday morning. Kamloops acting assistant fire chief Brian Lannon said the two injured, the cart owner and a passerby, are in stable condition. He said firefighters received a call shortly after 11 a.m. About a hot dog stand on fire. When they arrived the flames had already been extinguished by staff from the Canadian Tire.

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