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Some of the nation's most selective institutions are slowly increasing their rural enrollment with the help of millions of dollars from a rural alumnus of the University of Chicago.

When Joseph Lamont Williams refused to leave the public park where he has lived for years, he was charged with a felony. Camping bans are on the rise as states seek to crack down on homelessness.

The first hurricane of the season — now downgraded to a tropical storm — skirted the U.S. East Coast, inconveniencing holiday revelers.

Public health officials were surprised last year when the dominant strain of circulating flu mutated after the flu vaccine had been formulated. The current version looks like a better match.

Joey Meek, 21, was arrested Thursday by the FBI. He was notified in August he was under investigation for possible felonies related to his statements to investigators.

After addressing a joint meeting of Congress and lunching with some 300 low-income and homeless people at Catholic Charities, the pontiff left for New York, the next stop on his U.S. tour.

Shell announced the move late Sunday, describing what the company called "a clearly disappointing exploration outcome" in the Chukchi Sea, which is part of the Arctic Ocean.

The Federal Aviation Administration charges the company, SkyPan International, conducted 65 flights in the skies over Chicago and New York, some of the nation's most restricted and congested airspace.

The two explosions have wounded another 186 people near the center of the Turkish capital, Ankara, before a peace rally organized by civic society groups and ahead of Turkey's elections.

We tracked how much airtime each candidate got during Wednesday's debates. In the prime-time debate, Donald Trump spoke more than twice as long as Mike Huckabee or Scott Walker.