* By the numbers: Hurricane Katrina versus post-tropical cyclone Sandy. * Sea levels rising faster than earlier projections. * Mapmakers delete an island that never existed and whose origins date to 1875. * If every U.S. state declared war against the others, which would win? * Painful memories surface while raising an Irgun
* Obama launches PR campaign to avoid the fiscal cliff, escalating an already tense negotiating atmosphere. * Anti-semitism of senior Hungarian politician viewed as "old school" compared to more contemporary hatred of Islam and immigrants. * Tales from the contemporary American West, where extreme weather is a killer. * Dog-sledding
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* Despite national losses, Republicans won supermajorities in statehouses across the South and Great Plains. * Don't believe Call of Duty: There won't be a cold war between China and the U.S. over rare earth minerals. * China's Communist Party newspaper congratulates Kim Jong-un on
* U.S. fiscal cliff and eurozone debt crisis viewed as biggest risks to the global economy. * Afghanistan veteran learns how to use a prosthetic arm. * Israel Defense Forces' PR rep poses in blackface, calling it "Obama style." * Colbert on the biggest problem with Homeland: Everyone gets terrific
* Interactive: See which U.S. metro coastal areas may someday be underwater. * A result of fossil fuel burning, ocean acidification is withering the marine food chain. * British code breakers can't crack a handwritten message found on a WWII carrier pigeon. * The idea of a New York City mayoral
* Congo again slips into chaos and war, though ruthless rebels prove to be capable administrators. * Portraits of Sandy survivors in storm-ravaged Staten Island. * Whether in 50 or 100 or 200 years, there’s a good chance that New York City will sink beneath the sea. * Considering overpopulation and the
* Rubio not so deftly dodges a creationism question—just like Sen. Barack Obama once did. * Obama campaign adviser explains our broken voting system and why you had to wait in line for eight hours. * As domestic U.S. flights are cut en masse, the best solution is more competition: Let
* "Middle East Conflict Intensifies As Blah Blah Blah, Etc. Etc." * History of the sounds of war, from air raid sirens to the whirring of drones. * How and why Obama's foreign policy passed the Benghazi test. * An epidemic of penis theft swept Nigeria between 1975 and 1977.
* Republicans aren't ready to forgive Chris Christie for his post-Sandy embrace of Obama. * Veterans with PTSD seek the help of a South Carolina couple who are finding success with MDMA treatment. * Thieves with power saws steal, deface ancient California cliff carvings. * Amid controversy over bias toward the
