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Six of the 10 most expensive storms since 1900 have hit since 2000. But after you adjust for increases in population and wealth, the picture looks different.

Eight of the world's 10 worst airports were in China, according to a new report by FlightStats.

The country's top general issues a veiled reference to the former president and ex-general's house arrest.

Libertarian Jim Berns has filed petitions to run for Cincinnati mayor, setting up what will be the first mayoral primary election in the city since…

The House speaker wants senators to act. The top Senate Republican says it's time to work on a compromise. And the Republican National Committee says the cuts would be "negligible compared to Obama's disastrous fiscal record."

It may sound like an episode of The Twilight Zone, but this isn't fiction. Zambia's top prosecutor dropped his own corruption charges and set himself free. NPR's Scott Simon discusses the case.

The data analytics company isn't a household name, but it has inspired great Silicon Valley workplaces like Google.

Lee McCoy, a top college golfer at the University of Georgia played among the pros on Sunday. Unfortunately, having entered as an amateur, he had to leave the big prize money on the table.

Noah talks to architect Cesar Pelli about the world's tallest buildings. Pelli designed what is currently the world's tallest: the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Those will soon be dwarfed by a tower in Shanghai, China. And Donald Trump has plans for a still-taller skyscraper in lower Manhattan. Pelli's own design for a 2,000-foot tall building in Chicago has remained un-built since it was unveiled in 1989. Pelli says there are a lot of hurdles for skyscrapers to overcome before completion. He says with extremely tall buildings, the architect must view the process as adding a story at the BOTTOM, not the top -- to account for all the services, wires, elevators, and so forth that go into making a building work.

The results are in: teams Ramrod and Trampoleen are the winners of Ball State University's second annual Pumpkin Drop. See photos of the pumpkin-protecting winning designs and hear the sound of winning pumpkins.