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More than three months after being seriously injured in a rocket attack and then going to Saudi Arabia for treatment, President Ali Abdullah Saleh made a surprise return to Yemen today.

A 2006 internal review found lawyers were illegally signing foreclosure documents, but the agency failed to do anything about it, the report says.

You may not remember the Jim Walter Resources coal mine disaster because it happened in the shadows of Sept. 11. More than a dozen miners were killed in multiple methane gas explosions.

The Mexican drug cartels have waged a ferocious campaign against the media, killing journalists who have reported their activities. Now it appears they are going after social media sites.

Some people are taking bedbug control into their own hands, buying and administering pesticides in their homes. But a report from the CDC that dozens people have been sicked from overusing or misusing the chemicals.

Federal regulators are moving closer to implementing new safety standards for table saws, which injure thousands of users each year. One possible solution is a safety brake that stops a blade when it comes into contact with skin. But saw manufacturers say the cost is too high.

Unless Congress acts, it will happen early next week, putting a halt to projects in communities around the country still struggling to recover from this year's spate of hurricanes, tornadoes and wildfires. And it would leave FEMA unable to respond to new disasters.

A fundamental rule of nature is that nothing travels faster than the speed of light. Now, physicists working in Europe say they may have discovered a subatomic particle that breaks that speed limit. But that extraordinary claim is being greeted with a healthy dose of skepticism.

Paleontologists made quite a find this week in Utah: a new species of raptor dinosaur. The ancient creature, a meat-eater, was small and fast, with talon-like toes.

The once-rare possibility of a federal government shutdown reared its head again this week. This time it was over House Republicans' desire to pay for disaster relief costs with money for other, unrelated projects. NPR's David Welna explains the Capitol Hill machinations ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline.