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Hours after Hurricane Katrina (search) passed, New Orleans was underwater. Some experts say the flooding could have been stopped a quarter-century ago — had environmentalists not interfered. In 1965, after Hurricane Betsy (search), President Lyndon Johnson authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to build two floodgates at the mouth of …

New York City’s most famous gay penguin couple has split up. Even worse, one of them has taken up with a female penguin new to the Central Park Zoo (search), the New York Post reports. Silo and Roy, two male chinstrap penguins (search) native to the South Atlantic, made local …

WASHINGTON – The State Department said Tuesday it had raised with the Israeli government the approval of construction of 117 houses in the Ariel settlement in the heart of the West Bank (search). Spokesman Sean McCormack provided no details, but he left little doubt that the administration was displeased. “Our …