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Children's author Roald Dahl would have turned 100 this week. To celebrate, the OED added 6 words and expressions from Dahl's writing. For example: golden ticket, Oompa Loompa and Scrumdiddlyumptious.

Suggested reforms to the law would dispel any ambiguity or confusion over the role of Congress when it comes to counting votes for a future presidential election.

More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 160 others injured in a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesian tourist spot Lombok island and surrounding areas, officials say.

He praises defendants who are charged with rioting that day. His campaign's launch site has connections to extremist violence. Experts worry he's tapping into anger that motivated domestic terrorism.

Police in Louisville say they don't know why a gunman burst into a bank and killed fivepeople, wounding nine others, before being killed by officers. The gunman was a past employee of the bank.

Often called the "show me your papers" law, Arizona's SB1070 sparked protests, boycotts, and lawsuits after it was signed into law in 2010.

The hotel chain has reached a tentative $7.6 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit. Motel 6 employees in multiple locations provided guests' names to Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

New on the shelves this week: An obit writer writes — and drunkenly publishes — his own obituary. A Hungarian teen stumbles into adulthood. And geriatric sleuth Vera Wong returns.