The travel turmoil led some fliers to embark on time-consuming detours as they monitored talks in Washington to end the government shutdown.

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One of two major American almanacs is ceasing publication after more than two centuries of predicting the weather and offering tidbits of wisdom.

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Meet Mark Grebner, the Michigan statistician who helped pioneer the science of predicting whether someone will vote Republican or Democratic.

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