Good morning! Rainy this afternoon with highs in the 50s and 60s again. Austin Rogers is the gift America didn't know it needed. He's a "Jeopardy!" champ who not only has brains but also flair (and plenty of hair!). Some say he's the best thing to happen to the show since IBM's Watson trounced its human opponent six years ago. | Forecast
The Las Vegas gunman had "bump stocks," devices that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire much faster, in his hotel room. Here's a look at how they work, their legal status and what they mean in today's gun control debate. | NRA open to regulation of 'bump stocks'
St. Paul police shot and killed a man Thursday in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood on the city's east side. A woman said he had shot at her with children in the house.
Lakes Huron and Michigan have become clearer than Lake Superior, which was long known as the most pristine of the Great Lakes. But some ramifications of the clearer water aren't good.
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, an organization seeking to eliminate atomic weapons through an international treaty-based prohibition.
Louisiana officials declared a state of emergency and ordered some people to evacuate coastal areas and barrier islands ahead of its expected landfall early Sunday, and evacuations began at some offshore oil platforms in the Gulf.
What's your favorite haunted house in fiction? Where would you never spend the night? The Thread looks at some of the most nightmarish literary locales.
