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The official unemployment rate now stands at 21.9 percent. It's yet another sign of how troubled times are in Greece.

Natasha Trethewey, 46, is among the youngest U.S. poet laureates and only the second to hail from the South. Trethewey's work explores issues of mixed race, history and memory. "She's taking us into history that was never written," says Librarian of Congress James Billington.

What's "a widespread, long-lived wind storm that is associated with a band of rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms" that can stretch along a straight path for hundreds of miles? It's a derecho. One just pummeled states in the East.

One industry official says a path to citizenship would improve conditions in the industry, which relies heavily on immigrant labor.

Asians were the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the country in 2012, according to data released by the Census Bureau on Thursday. The state where the Asian population grew fastest? South Dakota.

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Investigators are looking at whether the brakes were properly set or if something was done to the train. At least 15 people were killed when freight cars loaded with oil derailed and exploded. Dozens more in the town of Lac-Mégantic are missing.

Stocks surged Thursday after the chief of the Federal Reserve sent signals that the central bank wasn't in a hurry to stop helping the economy. The Standard and Poor's 500 Index closed at a record high.

After a gunman burst onto a Centennial, Colo., high school, the community is asking a familiar question: Why? In

No charges were filed against Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston, but the accuser's lawyer is calling for an independent review of the state's investigation. She says investigators focused on the accuser more than the alleged perpetrator.