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Monitor articles for September 17, 2014
- Another Calif. wildfire grows larger, threatening more homes
- The Monitor's ViewWhy Congress must vote on Obama's war with IS
- NFL, players agree to new drug testing policy
- Where do Europeans come from? DNA hints at new branch on family tree.
- Lupita Nyong'o visits 'Sesame Street' to celebrate diversity with Elmo
- Why Congress is punting on authorizing war against Islamic State
- Fed holds off, but consumers should still prepare for interest rate hikes
- BP lawyers scolded for using ‘college term paper’ line spacing tricks
- Suez Canal 2.0: Egyptians pour savings into president's ambitious project
- Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer arrested on assault charges
- Wind can't stop Wallenda, tightrope walker heads to Chicago
- 15 detained in Australian counterterrorism raid
- Fed sees no interest rate hike until 2015, but it's getting closer
- Chinese hackers penetrating key computer networks for Pentagon
- Why Congress moved so fast on Syria: It's the election, stupid
- Boffins discover colossal black hole within tiny dwarf galaxy
- Kale turkey meatballs
- Who pays? With money matters, traditional gender roles stick.
- Agatha Christie: What one writer discovered in her personal notebooks
- Can Scotland divorce London without alienating the EU?
- Obamacare fading as a 2014 campaign issue
- Poll: GOP's Joni Ernst leads in Iowa Senate race. Big, if true
- China puts Muslim scholar on trial, expanding scope of Uighur crackdown
- As Scots debate independence, some in England say 'good riddance'
- Texas executes woman convicted of starving and torturing 9-year-old
- Los Angeles reached 103 degrees this week. How drought is to blame
- How to rein in auto-play videos on Instagram
- 'Boots on the ground' in Iraq: Are Obama and Pentagon really at odds?
- Joe Biden's two-gaffe day: Offensive or simple slips of the tongue?
- Apple reenforces iCloud after celebrity debacle
- Vikings reverse course, ban Adrian Peterson as sponsors express concern
- What happened on Mars? NASA's MAVEN arrives Sunday to find out.
- How Islamic State is wielding the Internet in new ways
- Nigerians brace for elections amid north-south rift and Boko Haram
- Humans aren't to blame for chimpanzee violence, study says
- What will NASA’s $6.8 billion space taxi contracts really buy?
- After dodging life in a brothel, Thai woman fights for those without a country
- Alleged Pa. police ambush shooter called a survivalist. What's that?
- Hezbollah, warily, lines up with 'Great Satan' to fight against IS
- Progress WatchChild poverty rate declines in America for first time since 2000
- Amid outcry, South Sudan backtracks on threat to expel foreign workers
- Adrian Peterson: The hand, the switch, and other parental spanking lines
- Why coal is here to stay
- Archaeologists use robot exoskeleton to explore Ancient Greek shipwreck
- Michigan mom chases thief, then gives birth
- 'Michelangelo' traces the tensions of Michelangelo's era in his work
- Barcelona wins $6.5 million urban innovation prize
- iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 plus: Which are people choosing?
- A Christian Science PerspectiveSeeing a way forward
- Thousands flee as lava flows from Philippines volcano
- Who won this year's MacArthur Foundation 'genius grants'?
- The strange and powerful lure of North Korea
- China's Xi arrives in India. Can Asia's giants put their differences aside?
- Adrian Peterson: Spanking gets him suspended once again
- Meteor that wiped out dinosaurs shook up plants too, say scientists
- Spying for Israel: Why a Gaza woman became a covert agent
- Big companies agree to cut back on a potent greenhouse gas
- Reader recommendation: Anvil of God
- Raise unique roses from seed
- Islamic State video threatens to kill US troops sent to fight
- Elizabeth the last queen of Scotland? Not so fast.
- Nile rain
- NASA picks Boeing, SpaceX for 'space taxi' service
- European court rules that libraries can digitize books
- GM ignition switch death toll reaches 19, could go higher
- US consumer prices drop 0.2 percent in August, as gasoline prices fall
- Aid volunteers in flooded Kashmir Valley ask: Where is the Indian Army?