A flag that flew over the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 11, 2001, was consumed in a fire at the Flight 93 National Memorial in Pennsylvania, the National Park Service said Saturday.

A record number of climbers summited North America’s highest peak, Mount McKinley, this season.

Canada welcomed Washington’s fiscal cliff deal but warned that risks remain that threaten the U.S. economy.

After Senate voted 89–8 on a compromise budget deal, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, the House has also passed the bill 257-167

Severe weather and tornadoes battered many parts of the United States on Christmas, leaving damaged buildings, power outages, and at least two deaths.

Kusunda is on the verge of extinction. With one native speaker left, it’s not extinct yet, but it is what linguists refer to as a dead language.

“Even if a family says, ‘This person is a danger, don’t give them a gun,’ police in Washington have no choice.” - Daniel Vice

The concept is simple: take a book, return a book. And with that, what began as a single Little Free Library in Hudson, Wis., is now spreading from lawn to lawn around the globe.