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A thought for the day: Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, said, The most sophisticated people I know -- inside they are all children.

On this date in history:

The Judiciary Act of 1789 was passed by Congress and signed by President George Washington, establishing the Supreme Court of the United States as a tribunal made up of six justices who ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- English novelist Horace Walpole in 1717
- Irish brewmaster Arthur Guinness in 1725
- John Marshall, fourth chief justice of the United States, in 1755
- candy ...Read more

Today is Sunday, Sept. 24, the 267th day of 2017 with 98 to follow.

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

malleable \MAL-ee-uh-buhl\ (adjective) - 1 : Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. 2 : Capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces; ...Read more

Six words have had their colors removed. The colors have been placed into Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your task is to reconstitute the words by merging each color with the proper set of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging of the letters. Example: sand + pne = spanned (SpANneD).

Group A: blue, brown, cyan, green, pink, red
Group B: agssivess, astr, ...

LOIZA, Puerto Rico--Spend a day wending down unpredictable country roads outside San Juan and the hurt Hurricane Maria inflicted on Puerto Rico becomes crushingly evident.

Maria drenched town after town east of the ...Read more

After Hurricane Irma's devastating 72-hour pass through northern Cuba, the Cuban government took a novel approach to storm relief: It posted a Cuban bank account number on social media where donations can be sent.

Even ...Read more

On this date in history:

In 1806, U.S. explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis on their historic journey from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast and back.

In 1846, ...Read more

Those born on this date include:

- Greek playwright Euripides in 480 B.C.
- Roman Emperor Augustus in 63 B.C.
- Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan in 1215
- feminist/presidential candidate Victoria ...Read more

disparate \DIS-puh-rit; dis-PAIR-it\ (adjective) - 1 : Fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind. 2 : Composed of or including markedly dissimilar elements.

"Twelve of us, disparate artists with disparate ...Read more

Which element in Group B can be added to Group A? Why?

Group A: Iridium, Vanadium, Xenon, Lanthanum, Carbon, Dysprosium
Group B: Radon, Barium, Uranium, Platinum, Manganese, Phosphorus

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- An 11th person has died as a result of stifling heat at a Hollywood, Fla., nursing home that lost power during Hurricane Irma.

Constance Alice Thomas, 94, died Thursday at 8:58 a.m., more than a ...Read more

MIAMI--Dee Thorne wants to change the name of her trailer from "Escapade" to "The Escape Pod."

Without the little trailer they bought in May, she and her husband, David, couldn't have evacuated from their home on Big Pine...Read more

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- As Hurricane Maria continued to cross the Caribbean on Friday, officials in Puerto Rico took stock of the deadly toll the historic storm left in its wake: nearly half of the storm's total death ...Read more

MIAMI -- Hurricane conditions began battering the Turks and Caicos and southernmost Bahamas early Friday as the eye of a strong Category 3 Maria passed to the east.

In their morning advisory, National Hurricane Center ...Read more