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Confections bakery in Lufkin, Texas lost customers after posting a picture of its rainbow-iced Pride Month cookies. It's now being flooded with orders and donations, and paying them forward.

There's a new marketing tool for book publishers: Trailers on the Web that promote their books. They're called "VidLits." One example: Yiddish with Dick and Jane.

About 2,700 listeners responded to last Friday's contest to find a word that describes the phenomenon of almost sneezing. The challenge was a nod to word maven Barbara Wallraff and her book Word Fugitives, about gaps in the language that dictionary words have failed to fill. Melissa Block has the results.

President Obama played like candidate Obama on Saturday — calling on his supporters to go door to door to get voters to pressure Congress to pass his budget.

Federal authorities have said Army scientist Bruce Ivins' guilt in the 2001 anthrax attacks could be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. At a news conference, they said Ivins was the only person responsible for the attack that killed five people.

Through his many New Yorker covers, Barry Blitt has become one of the pre-eminent satirical cartoonists of America's recent presidents. Now Blitt has trained his eye and pen upon our first president in a new children's book, George Washington's Birthday.

A majority of employees who work in the EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights have been put on paid leave effective immediately. They all work on environmental justice issues or on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Researchers using data from the James Webb Space Telescope recently announced they had detected biosignature gases on planet K2-18b. A new analysis of the same data casts doubt on the earlier findings

A 26-years-old had just started her first federal job at the Department of Energy. But she became one of the thousands swept up in the Trump administration's mass terminations of government workers.

Jobs. Prices. GDP. The federal government keeps close tabs on these and other economic indicators. And decision-makers depend on those numbers to be reliable. But that could be a challenge, given staffing cuts and political pressure.