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An earmark linked to lobbyist Jack Abramoff threatens the political career of Montana Sen. Conrad Burns. Burns helped steer money to a wealthy tribe from Michigan that employed Abramoff. At the same, the impoverished Blackfeet tribe of Montana says the senator ignored its plight.

Little was known about the San Andreas fault before a massive earthquake struck San Francisco in 1906. But that changed when a team of scientists mapped the fault and produced a report that gave birth to modern earthquake science.

A Campbell's Soup can scribbled on by Andy Warhol surfaces three decades after it was hidden away in a coat closet. Must be worth a bundle, right? A reporter takes a journey through the art world to find out.

Palestinian farmers and human rights groups are demanding the Israeli police and army do more to protect Palestinian farmland from vandalism by militant Jewish settlers.

"They have the right to be searched for, and we have the right to search for them," says the mother of a man who has been missing since 2013. Relatives say the government does little to help.

Can voice lessons help a kid get to college?Less than half of Detroit's high school students graduate, but more than 95 percent of kids who perform with the Mosaic Youth Theatre end up in college.

Enormous stumps in the Pacific Northwest tell the tale of vanished old-growth forests and a logging industry once enriched by giant trees. Member station KUOW's Harriet Baskas visits some old stumps put to new and creative uses.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is placing all of downtown Detroit on its list of 11 most endangered historic sites in the country. The Trust says there are several historic sites in Detroit in danger from neglect. It's also concerned by city efforts to clean up before July's baseball All-Star Game and February's Super Bowl.

Stewart O'Nan's new novel, The Good Wife, is a story about life on the outside of the prison system — a story about patience and waiting.

For more than a century, collectors and developers in Florida have stripped the state of its native orchids. Now, a team of scientists is working to reintroduce the plants to the swamps where they once flourished.