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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the near-historic Mississippi River flood of 2011 caused $2.8 billion in damage and tested the system of levees,…

Journalist Matt Beynon Rees is now a crime novelist, too. The Collaborator of Bethlehem follows a Palestinian schoolteacher who turns detective to solve a murder set in the violence-ridden West Bank. Rees was based in Jerusalem as a Middle East reporter for Time magazine for more than a decade, serving as bureau chief from 2000 to 2006.

A report released Thursday by Washington-based Data Quality Campaign shows Kentucky has made progress in using data to improve student achievement. The “Data For Action 2012” report touts Kentucky as a leader for its longitudinal data system, which refers to data that can be tracked from kindergarten to career. Kentucky’s P-20 Data Collaborative—a joint effort by the Kentucky Department of Education and the state’s Council on Post-Secondary Education—provides high school feedback reports, which executive director of Data Quality Campaign Aimee Guidera says gives good feedback to the community regarding where students go after high school, said. Kentucky meets six of 10 categories DQC uses to determine effective use of data to improve student achievement. Last year, the commonwealth met two. What Guidara said Kentucky needs to improve upon is educating teachers and principals on how to use the data that’s available. “It’s really not only about making sure they have the technical skills to know how to access and use this data, but in addition its making sure we’re creating conditions and building a culture that really supports and nurtures the use of data,” she said. The report further shows Kentucky has done well at providing parents access to student-level data.

A coalition of environmental and clean water groups, including the Sierra Club, released a new report Tuesday highlighting the need for strong…

An investigative reporter for The New York Times, Christopher Drew has been on the ground in New Orleans and provides a firsthand account of the situation he witnessed in the Superdome and the streets of the flooded city.

White House deputy Karl Rove was the source Time reporter Mathew Cooper risked jail to protect in an inquiry into the leak of a CIA agent's name, according to Newsweek. Rove apparently didn't name agent Valerie Plame, saying instead that she was former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife.

CBS News fires three executives and a producer over their roles in a flawed story about President Bush's National Guard service. An independent review gives a detailed look at how the story came to be broadcast on that edition of 60 Minutes Wednesday. NPR's David Folkenflik reports.

The National Urban League releases its annual State of Black America report, which measures racial disparity in the United States. The most noticeable differences are in the areas of home ownership and economic parity -- black earning power is about 73 percent that of whites. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and Robert Bowser, mayor of East Orange, N.J.

A new U.S. intelligence report on Iran says Tehran may be able to develop a nuclear weapon between 2010 and 2015. But the National Intelligence Estimate finds that Iran halted its development program in the fall of 2003 — contradicting claims by the Bush administration.

Baseball fans at the ESPN Zone sports bar in Washington, D.C., McGillycuddy's bar in Milwaukee, and the Student Center at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, react to the Mitchell report on the illegal use of steroids and other performance-enhancing substances by players in Major League Baseball.