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World leaders reluctantly agreed to a global effort to limit the effects of greenhouse gases.

Candy is candy, right? Not if you're trying to tax it. That's when the definition gets a bit sticky. Suddenly a Snickers bar is candy but a Twix isn't. This is an issue as states like Colorado and Washington move to tax sweets to help balance their budgets.

The filmmaker's documentary The Oath tells the story of two men who both worked for Osama bin Laden and then wound up in incredibly different spots: One drives a taxicab in Yemen, while the other sits in solitary confinement at Guantanamo. Poitras how she gained access to the story -- and why questions still remain about the film's protagonist.

Michael Alegria is one of only three people who know how to operate the Multiple Mirror Telescope in Arizona. Though he's not an astronomer — he's an engineer — Alegria says he's loved astronomy ever since he took apart his first telescope as a kid to see how it worked.

Tony Hayward is out as CEO of BP after the company's disastrous oil spill. If he leaves the company, he stands to walk away with a compensation package that includes about $1.5 million in salary and a pension worth $17 million. That will seem like an unforgivable sum to many people. But as "golden parachutes" go, his deal is actually quite modest.

Five years ago, the New Orleans bluegrass band Truckstop Honeymoon was on tour when Hurricane Katrina struck. The storm destroyed the band members' home and community in the 9th ward. But Mike West and Katie Euliss didn't let it slow them down.

This year, voters seem in the mood to dump anyone with establishment credentials. That attitude is helping candidates like Democrat Andrew Romanoff, who is trying to beat incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet. It's also pushing GOP establishment candidate Jane Norton to pump up her tea party connections.

Nick Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University, sued the college in 2018 after he was disciplined for not using she/her pronouns to refer to a transgender student.

Students learn everything from gross and net earnings to COBRA, COLAs and co-pays. Professor Ann Witte created the Fundamentals of Personal Finance class to offer real-life experience before collegians start real life.

Philo T. Farnsworth invented television in 1927. He must have had two children at home with the flu. There is no greater spur to ingenuity than the desperation of parents who need to distract and amuse sneezing, squirming children.