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MIAMI -- Hurricane Maria continued on its track toward the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico Tuesday morning, hours after leaving behind a scene of devastation in Dominica where it ripped off rooftops on the small Caribbean ...Read more

A thought for the day: Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Gen. Omar Bradley

On this date in history:

In 1777, American soldiers won the first Battle of Saratoga in the Revolutionary War.

In 1881, U.S. President James Garfield, 49, who had been shot in July by a disgruntled ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski in 1905
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell in 1907
- Austrian automobile designer Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche in 1909
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Today is Tuesday, Sept. 19, the 262nd day of 2017 with 103 to follow.

The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Mercury and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Saturn.

spoony \SPOO-nee\ (adjective) - 1 : Foolish; silly; excessively sentimental. 2 : Foolishly or sentimentally in love.

"They were real spoony on me, but I wasn't spoony on them one bit, Eliza, at least, not in my heart, ...Read more

What song lyric does this rebus describe?

Caspar says "Idiots will always enter a burning building."
Melchior says "They will do so, even when no one else will try."
Balthasar says "Not only that, but those dupes will do it quickly."

The following editorial appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Monday, Sept. 18:

Put the national flood insurance program and climate change denial together, and you have a perfect storm.

The past several weeks of ...Read more

Question: What do you call a congressman who votes against emergency aid for hurricane victims?

Answer: A "piece of ... ."

Sure, the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce later apologized for that particular ...Read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Hurricane Maria, a dangerous Category 5 storm, reached the island of Dominica in the eastern Caribbean on Monday night with sustained winds of 160 mph, forecasters said.

(Etehad reported from Los ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- The Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills had an ambulance service and another nursing home at the ready to help in the event of a hurricane emergency. But it never reached out to either, even ...Read more

Roku Inc., the leading maker of devices for streaming internet video on televisions, hopes to raise up to $252 million with an initial public stock offering.

The Los Gatos, Calif., company's IPO registration filing Monday...Read more

MIAMI -- Hurricane Maria strengthened to a major Category 3 hurricane Monday morning, carving a path across the northern Caribbean that could see some islands battered by a second major storm in about a week's time.

In ...Read more

On this date in history:

In 1850, the U.S. Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, allowing slave owners to reclaim slaves who escaped into another state.

In 1927, the Columbia Broadcasting System was...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- English poet/lexicographer Samuel Johnson, writer of the first English dictionary, in 1709
- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story in 1779
- French physicist Leon ...Read more

temerity \tuh-MER-uh-tee\ (noun) - Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger; rashness.

"Then, he had the temerity, the ivory-tower temerity, if I may be so bold, as to suggest that there are younger, and less well-...Read more