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A federal appeals court has rejected a Mississippi law that would have forced the state’s only abortion clinic to close.

Eli Wallach, whose acting work ranged from Westerns to the Godfather series and beyond, has died. For decades, Wallach won fans by bringing humanity and humor to roles that pit him as a villain against titans such as Clint Eastwood and Steve McQueen.

Dropping water levels in a river reveal the answer to a mystery that had been haunting a South Dakota town for more than 40 years.

In preparation for a complete exit from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds’ worth of military equipment, The Washington Post reported.

There were 198,000 jobs added to private employers’ payrolls in February, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report — a privately produced snapshot of the employment picture that’s sometimes a signal of what the Bureau of Labor Statistics will say when it releases its data from the same month.