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For P.D. James, A Good Mystery Celebrated Human Intelligence

12:12pm November 27, 2014

The British author of best-selling detective stories has died at age 94. "In a sense, the detective story is a small celebration of reason and order in our very disorderly world," she told NPR.

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Author P.D. James, whose publisher says died at age 94.

British Mystery Novelist P.D. James Dies At 94

11:32am November 27, 2014

by Scott Neuman

The author of such books as The Black Tower was best-known for her series featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh.

A 40-pound tom turkey flaps his wing as Chris Conley carries him to a pen at Raymond's Turkey Farm in Methuen, Mass., on Friday. The farm raises approximately 20,000 broad-breasted white turkeys per year.

Science

Can Breeders Cure What Ails Our Breast-Heavy Turkeys?

11:19am November 27, 2014

by Eliza Barclay

The standard commercial American turkey is the product of decades of intense selective breeding. But breeding for efficiency and size has created new health problems scientists must grapple with.

Morgan Griffin, 20 (left), and his brother, Eric Crandell, 12, browse their mobile devices as they wait to board the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner train bound for Santa Barbara, Calif., at Union Station in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Snow and rain in the East sn

National

Holiday Travel Snarls Look To Be Easing

11:00am November 27, 2014

by Scott Neuman

AAA says some 46 million Americans will travel more than 50 miles for Thanksgiving — the largest number since 2007.

People walk through falling snow Wednesday at a rest stop on Interstate 95 outside Baltimore, in Aberdeen, Md.

Messy Winter Storm Snarls Thanksgiving Travel

9:46pm November 26, 2014

by Eyder Peralta

Hub airports in the middle of the country are choked with delays, while a tenth of the flights at some Northeast airports aren't taking off at all. Meanwhile, drivers are navigating slushy roads.

Two years ago, Honduran Wilson Castro was one of countless migrants trying to make his way to the United States. He decided to stay in Mexico instead and help Adrian Rodriguez Garcia feed other migrants traveling through by train. The two men were murdere

World News

Two Men's Efforts To Help Migrants In Mexico End In Their Murders

9:29pm November 26, 2014

by Carrie Kahn

The pair fed and clothed Central American migrants on their way through Mexico. One of them, a transvestite, had been doing it for more than a decade and had received death threats.

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Vince Cameron has worked the docks at the Port of Jacksonville for more than three decades. If the city doesn't deepen the port, he says, a new breed of massive cargo ship will instead go to Savannah, Ga., or Charleston, S.C.

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Jacksonville Split Over Joining A Southern Port Dredging Frenzy

8:01pm November 26, 2014

by Peter Haden

Jacksonville, Fla., is racing to find funds to deepen its port. If it can't accommodate newer, bigger cargo ships from Asia, the city says, it will lose out to Savannah, Ga., and Charleston, S.C.

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Degan Ali, a Somali-American humanitarian, describes herself on Twitter as a "social justice activist, Muslima."

World News

A Somali Aid Worker Would Rather Give Out Cash Than Free Food

7:43pm November 26, 2014

by Amanda Fiegl

Degan Ali, a Somali humanitarian, tells us about her organization's efforts to fight famine in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan.

Karen Gold paints on a boarded window of her store in Ferguson, Mo.

National

How Ferguson Residents Are Giving Thanks This Holiday Season

6:39pm November 26, 2014

by Shereen Marisol Meraji

Following the grand jury's decision not to indict Darren Wilson, Ferguson residents are hoping to take this Thanksgiving to grow and heal their community — and give thanks to one another.

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Texas Execution Nears For Murderer Whose Competence Was Debated

6:39pm November 26, 2014

by Wade Goodwyn

Next week, Texas is slated to execute Scott Panetti for murder. He has a long history of mental illness but was allowed to defend himself at trial, where he insisted he was a movie character.

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