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This week, Fitch Ratings downgraded the U.S. long-term rating to AA+ from AAA — the top possible rating.

Before Monday's Virginia Tech deaths, the deadliest campus shooting in the United States was at the University of Texas on Aug. 1, 1966. Firing from the top of a tower on campus, Charles Whitman killed 16 people and injured 31. An eyewitness looks back.

The former Republican National chair sparked a fierce backlash by some of the network's top talent, who protested the decision on air and social media.

Should she secure the Democratic nomination, Vice President Kamala Harris would join a short list of female candidates from major parties to top a presidential ticket.

Oklahoma ranks as one of the top states in the nation for wind-generated electricity. But, Oklahoma recently slipped from being second in the U.S. for wind-turbine produced power.

Top security clearance is hard to come by — even for some senior White House officials.

A top ally to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat announced Monday that he will not seek re-election after serving in Congress for 40 years.

After a chart-topping and occasionally controversial music career, she s now turning out children s books publishing four in just over a year. The newest is The Adventures of Abdi. The others are The English Roses, Mr. Peabody's Apples and Yakov and the Seven Thieves. Her fifth, Lotsa de Casha, is due out in April 2005.

There have been 40 consecutive drawings since the last time someone won Powerball's top prize on New Year's Day. The jackpot ranks as the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history.

NPR Music celebrates the alt-rock heroes, Hollywood idols, Pulitzer-winning composers, jazz luminaries, cult legends, bold activists, old masters and rising stars the world lost this year.

It's like the start of a bad joke: a vegan, a gluten-free and a paleo walk into a bar — except it's your house, and they're gathered around the Thanksgiving table. Don't panic — we've got recipes.

Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona come into focus in final days. Plus: where things stand in seven other Senate contests.