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Tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of the start of the U.S. Civil War. Historian Adam Goodheart explains how national leaders and ordinary citizens across the country responded to the chaos and uncertainty in 1861: The Civil War Awakening.

Just two years after paying $590 million to buy Pure Digital Technologies and its Flip video camera business, Cisco Systems is killing the Flip brand altogether.

Collins was the leader of the 1980s post-punk band Orange Juice. In 2005, he had two cerebral hemorrhages and doubted whether he'd ever make music again. But now he's back with his seventh solo album, Losing Sleep, which Ken Tucker says addresses the singer's past with "bracing clarity."

The lucky museums are New York's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum; the California Science Center; the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; and the Kennedy Space Center. Some family members of astronauts who died in shuttle tragedies said they were heartbroken by the fact that Space Center Houston was left out.

For the first time in many decades, Congress appears to be taking a hard look at the nation's deficit problem — one that President Obama plans to address in a speech Wednesday.

Soaring prices for corn and soybeans are prompting some Midwestern farmers to consider turning pastureland into cropland. But with beef prices also rising, many are still betting on cattle.

Slavery was the Civil War's cause despite revisionists saying otherwise. Historian Adam Goodheart, who has a new book on the critical year of "1861" said he thinks part of the reason for that revisionism is the difficulty some Southerners have in believing their ancestors fought for slavery.

The elder statesman of West Coast rap says his new single is punchlines and fun. Don't overthink it.

Unrest has swept across the Middle East and North Africa, sparked by an uprising in Tunisia that led to the ouster of the country's ruler. Here's a look at the turmoil that has spread across the region.

Bang, an important figure on New York's experimental jazz scene of the 1970s, gained wider recognition in the last decade for a series of recordings which drew on his military service during the Vietnam War. An intense performer, Bang was 63.