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Stephen Chbosky — who wrote the YA classic The Perks of Being a Wallflower -- says his new book takes the familiar scares of childhood, like monsters in the closet, and twists them a little.

GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin announces that her 17-year-old unwed daughter is five months pregnant. Political editor Ken Rudin discusses how the announcement will affect John McCain's campaign.

Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel paramilitaries a year ago, experts estimate over 14,000 people have been killed and millions displaced and facing starvation.

For most of the '00s, Panda Bear helped define the sound of youthful, ramshackle indie rock. On Noah Lennox's eighth album, Sinister Grift, the artist focuses on the shifting relationships and faltering memories of midlife, with a fleshed out band behind him.

Grocery prices are stabilizing, but many Americans still feel a financial sting at the grocery checkout aisle.

Food aid is moldering in warehouses in Jordan, the main hub for humanitarian aid to Gaza. Other foods and medicines are loaded on trucks that have waited for months at Israeli border crossings.

In northern California, a group of volunteers spend every night from late fall through winter as crossing guards–escorting migrating salamanders across a rural road.

The Pritzker Prize was awarded Thursday. "In every work, he is able to answer with radical originality, making the unobvious obvious," said fellow Chilean architect and prize chair Alejandro Aravena.

A tumultuous decade in politics saw everything from the presidency and reelection of the first black president to the rise of the Tea Party and the improbable election of Donald Trump as president.

The latest round of women's marches is against the filling of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court seat. It's also an opportunity for activists to take stock as the stakes of the election loom.