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Named for its abnormal shape and expansion pattern, "the blob" is a patch of unusually warm water spreading across the Pacific.

There was no big lead-up to his release, former U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati says: "They just came one morning and said, 'Pack your things.'"

Iowa voters weigh in ahead of Monday night's caucus, which is the first contest of the 2016 presidential race.

Iowa voters began gathering for the start of the caucuses Monday night. NPR reports from a Republican caucus site in Urbandale, Iowa.

The Farm Bill promised to cut subsidies to farmers. Instead, farmers will continue getting about $20 billion a year thanks to new programs that compensate farmers when corn and soybean prices fall.

Nearly 200,000 people have evacuated from communities near the Oroville Dam in northern California. The dam's emergency spillway is damaged, and more storms are expected later this week.

Minnesota Senator Al Franken joins us. The one time comedian shares his view of Washington now.

From the Lebanese city of Tyre, Matthew McAllister, a journalist for New York Newsday, discusses the "violent spasm" on the last day before the cease-fire cost of the conflict.

The Supreme Court agrees to consider a challenge to the military tribunals the Bush administration has used to try suspected terrorists. One of the detainees includes a man captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of being the driver for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

The proposal also includes transit cards that will help Illinois residents paying an average of $4.46 per gallon at the pump, compared to a national average of $4.23.