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Rose George spent several weeks aboard a container ship to research Ninety Percent of Everything, her book about the shipping industry. She writes, "There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live."

The well-staged London Olympics have drawn to a close and on Monday, thousands of fans made their way to airports for the flight home.

Attendance at Kauffman Stadium for Royals games is up, as of the MLB All-Star break, after their near-record-worst year last season. Across the state in St. Louis, the Cardinals have seen a drop in fans.

Starliner's test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, should have returned by mid-June. NASA is weighing its options for returning the two, including a ride home in a rival SpaceX capsule.

A Democrat on the committee says the move is election year posturing.

Record snow fall in New Orleans this week disrupted the delivery of the famous king cakes to carnival events in Washington DC. this weekend.

Flying with your dog can be stressful — but now there's a private jet service for the discerning dog. It's called Bark Air.

The overall increase in the number of Americans with health insurance draws attention to counties where the uninsured rate is still high, many of them in states that chose not to expand Medicaid.

Gov. JB Pritzker issued an executive order in response to shakeups at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A data scientist pitted rappers against Shakespeare to see who had the more extensive vocabulary. But he says he isn't trying to make some sweeping statement about the lyrical prowess of hip-hop.