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In a new album, the youngest ever Van Cliburn winner puts his own stamp on Tchaikovsky's undervalued set of piano pieces called The Seasons.

Set in 1930s Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles, The Teleportation Accident is a sci-fi-noir-comedy mashup overstuffed with astute social observations, high-brow literary allusions and vivid prose. Critic Jennifer Reese finds this freewheeling farce both brilliant and exasperating.

So you know how, if someone comes by and taps the top of your open beer bottle, a volcano of brewski will explode? Well, it turns out that the physics involved are the same as what causes an atomic bomb to form a mushroom cloud. A scientist explains how it works.

The news of the leak of life-and-death operational details to a reporter lands differently with veterans and active-duty troops, who can be prosecuted for much less significant "spillage" incidents.

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A jury in Topeka has rejected a former state employee's claim that religious discrimination was a key factor in her firing from Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's office. The secretary of state's office maintained that performance issues led to Courtney Canfield's firing in November 2013.

Former Kansas Secretary of Commerce Antonio Soave joins a crowded field of Republicans running for the Kansas 2nd Congressional District seat next year.

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Educators around the U.S. told us they're facing heartbreaking choices between the needs of their students and the needs of their own children.