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Aid groups say they are making progress in delivering food to Somalia. But the need is critical and growing as the death toll continues to mount.

The Pew Hispanic Center survey finds 65 percent of Latinos favor the Democratic candidate in their local congressional district. But only half of Latino registered voters say they are certain to vote in next month's midterm elections.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded two grants totaling more than $5.7 million to support the organization's Poet Laureates as well as a national alliance of organizations promoting poetry.

Farmers have blocked highways for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. The unions said the new measures represented "tangible progress."

The settlement, which will end a wrongful incarceration lawsuit filed by attorneys for Ronnie Wallace Long, also included a public apology from the city of Concord for its role in his imprisonment.

Newtown, Conn., is still reeling from the shock of last week's shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Sadness is everywhere as the first of many funerals were held Monday. The police investigation continues but most of the big questions about the attack remain unanswered at this time.

Bayer is adding two of its name-brand drugs to the roster of Cost Plus Drugs: the birth control pill Yaz and the menopause treatment Climara.

The Dartmouth men's basketball team is set to vote on whether to form the first union in college sports.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James said the food company is misleading the public about its efforts to cut its climate pollution.

Apfel's late-in-life emergence as a stylemaker was celebrated in magazines and museums. Her company made reproduction fabrics for the White House for decades. She became a fashion model at 97.