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This week was a big one for weather forecasters. We talked to two experts about their predictions on Thursday, and we follow up in the middle of the storm on Saturday, to see how well they did.

Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney was the top vote-getter in the council election and a natural pick by Mayor-elect Aftab Pureval for vice mayor. She will wield real power.

Recent scandals have apparently cost Bo Xilai his job as Communist Party chief in the southwestern city of Chongqing. Bo had once seemed headed straight for China's top leadership body, but corruption allegations and an imbroglio involving his former right-hand man helped drive him from power.

When Hurricane Katrina swept into New Orleans, accurate information was often the rarest commodity. As water inundated New Orleans, the city's dominant paper, The Times-Picayune, found its true calling.

President Biden briefly emerged from COVID isolation to announce that U.S. killed the top leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader when Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

Each city department this week identified its 10 most critical needs based on criteria like public and employee safety, accessibility, impact on the public, shovel readiness, and projects in under-served areas.

2024 Presidential candidates are ramping up their campaigning in New Hampshire, where state law requires it to hold the first primary. The situation is an uneasy one for top democrats there.

When President-elect Barack Obama introduced his national security team this week, he left two key positions unfilled: CIA director and director of National Intelligence. That may be because it's hard to find people to fill the jobs who are not associated with the controversial intelligence policies of the Bush administration.

The price of cocoa is on a wild historic ride: It topped the all-time record before Valentine's Day and almost doubled since then, in time for Easter. The culprit is the weather.

Vaccines may not be as effective for those who are immuno-compromised. Protecting them needs to be made a top priority, says researchers — to keep them safe and to slow the emergence of variants.