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For some, travel is a relaxing break, but not for writer Benjamin Percy. For our books series "My Guilty Pleasure," where authors talk about a book they are embarrassed to love, Percy discusses how he spends his vacations — armed with a travel guide, seeking out the spooky, the scary and the supernatural.

The impulse to scare ourselves has been around for centuries, as American Fantastic Tales, the new two-volume horror anthology from The Library of America, proves. Editor Peter Straub has done a superb job with both his story selections and hyperliterate introductions.

As three Israelis are fatally shot and a Palestinian is killed during riots by Jewish settlers, the U.S. is pushing diplomacy to keep violence in the occupied West Bank from escalating more.

Israelis are voting Tuesday in an election that could shape Mideast peace negotiations. Opinion polls suggest a tight race between former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni. But since Israel's war last month with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, support has surged for ultra-nationalist right-wing candidate Avigdor Lieberman.

President Obama is expected to name former New York City Health Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to lead the troubled Food and Drug Administration.

The owner of the ship that caused the fatal collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge faces a $100 million lawsuit from the U.S. Justice Department.

Typhoon Ragasa slammed into southern China Wednesday, unleashing 150 miles per hour wind gusts and torrential rain.

The Green New Deal Network is launching with over $20 million to promote their agenda, as President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office and Democrats set to control both chambers of Congress.

The rise of Venezuela's deposed president, Nicolás Maduro, was slow, beginning in youth politics and shaped by the mentorship of Hugo Chávez. Maduro's fall, too, unfolded over years.

U.S. health officials ramp up the ability to test for coronavirus. The Democratic presidential race may narrow again after Super Tuesday. And, Israel holds a third election in less than a year.