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Secretary of State Blinken sought to blunt complaints from GOP House lawmakers about the administration's response to the Afghan government collapse, and efforts to evacuate Americans and others.

Two high school students from Atlanta made history at the prestigious Harvard International Debate Competition. Jayla Jackson and Emani Stanton are the first duo of Black females to win.

We're hearing that this Halloween, people in New Hampshire are doing the Monster Mash (it was a graveyard smash).

The pilot crash landed the aircraft, which was carrying four people, without casualties in a residential area of suburban Philadelphia, miraculously avoiding a web of power lines and buildings.

Most of the victims died of hypothermia, officials said, as overnight temperatures fell to 17.6 Fahrenheit amid heavy snowfall at Pakistan's mountain resort town of Murree.

Rita Moreno's acting career spans more than five decades and is decorated with the business' highest honors: the Tony, an Oscar, a Grammy and two Emmy awards. Many remember her work in the hit production West Side Story. Moreno talks about her mother's influence, her fear of being type cast and her role in Cane.

With the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon now in its ninth day, Israel is again warning the occupants of towns and cities in the southern part of the country to leave. Tyre has been the scene of some of the fiercest Israeli air strikes.

Written around the time of World War One, Sergei Rachmaninov's "All Night Vigil" is an extraordinary choral music composition. A new recording of Rachmaninov's work from conductor Paul Hillier and The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is out, and music critic Tom Manoff says it's magnificent.

Brush fires in Southern California have consumed about 20,000 acres in Los Angeles and Ventura counties. But Frank Stolz of NPR station KPCC says temperatures are down, and so are winds.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert demands a retraction from ABC News for reporting that he was involved in an investigation of a corrupt lobbyist -- even after the Justice Department had denied the report. Hastert has said that someone inside the Justice Department might have led ABC astray in an effort to intimidate him.