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Republican senators who say the new bureau is too strong kept the Senate from considering Richard Cordray's nomination. President Obama vows not to give up.

Mythbusters has tried out a lot of things in the last few years, but trying a cannonball fired through a residential neighborhood? That was an accident.

A study released this week found that many eco-labels for farmed seafood don't guarantee the fish was raised in a way that protects the marine environment.

The university president called the shootings a "wanton act of violence" that brought back "difficult memories of the past." In 2007, a student there killed 32 others before taking his own life.

After more than 100 episodes, TNT's The Closer is coming to a close. Brenda Leigh Johnson leads the major crimes department of the Los Angeles Police Department on the hit show. Played by Kyra Sedgwick, Johnson uses charm and guile to coax confessions from killers.

Scientists have found what they say is the world's oldest bed: a 77,000-year-old grass and leaf mattress in a cave in South Africa. And the people who made it were crafty: Atop layers of sedge grass were leaves from a plant known to repel insects — key for living in buggy, dank caves.

The place where the Sept. 11 mastermind was once held is in a residential neighborhood in Bucharest.

Notes from Gingrich's 1994 college course "Renewing American Civilization" include his thoughts on American exceptionalism and how to turn distressed urban areas into places where people can "pursue happiness without fear."

Frustrated by what some see as U.S. foot-dragging on climate policy, an American college student interrupted U.S. envoy Todd Stern Thursday during his remarks at the climate conference in South Africa. Later, Stern emphasized that the U.S. has been working hard to advance global climate policy into the 21st century.

Lynn Neary speaks with Sarah Weinman, the news editor for Publishers Marketplace, about the antitrust probe of Apple and six publishing houses over the prices of e-books. It is being investigated by the Department of Justice and the European Commission.