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Flooding across West Virginia has killed at least 14 people and seriously damaged or destroyed more than 100 homes. It’s the worst flooding in a century for some areas of the state.

In a vote presided over by President Obama, the U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a historic resolution aimed at stopping the flow of foreign extremists to battlefields around the world.

Decades after the threat of extinction led to them being protected from whalers, there are now about 2,200 blue whales off the West Coast, according to a new study.

Earlier this week, NPR ran a short series I did on America’s land-based nuclear missiles. One diagram in particular raised a few eyebrows: It showed the location of a Missile Alert Facility, along with the silos for 10 nuclear weapons.

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot might be, quite literally, the perfect storm: It’s a swirling, anti-cyclonic vortex that’s big enough to engulf three Earths and has been raging in the atmosphere of the solar system’s largest planet for at least 400 years.

A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling that may cause a “fundamental change in scholarship rules and the concept of amateurism” in NCAA basketball and football, USA Today reports.