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T. Susan Chang grew up loving mint chip ice cream in all its pastel-green glory. During her grand culinary experiments as an adult to re-create that unnaturally vivid shade, Chang has rediscovered the transporting power of ice cream.

Appeals courts in Georgia and New York both rule that their states do not allow same-sex marriage. Jeanne Vitale and her partner are one of the couples who had filed suit to compel New York to issue them a marriage license. Vitale talks with Madeline Brand about the decision.

Voters in the Cherokee Nation have decided to kick out black members of the tribe. The ancestors of the Freedmen, as they're known, were slaves once owned by Cherokees. Native American filmmaker Jenni Monet offers her insights on the vote.

Robert Siegel and Michele Norris summarize the main news of the day from Virginia Tech, including brief obituary notices from Monday's killings including Reema Samaha, 18, a freshman from Centreville, Va.; Caitlin Hammaren, 19, from upstate New York; and professors Kevin Granata and James Bishop.

President Bush on Tuesday led grieving students, faculty and families in a convocation in Blacksburg, Va., for the 32 people killed Monday by a lone gunman in a shooting on the Virginia Tech campus. The dead and injured were remembered in speeches and prayers. Seung-Hui Cho shot himself after the rampage. Police are investigating what drove him to his murderous assault.

Regional tensions have mounted since mutinous soldiers overthrew Niger's democratically elected president nearly two weeks ago and installing the leader of the presidential guard as head of state.

The devastating fires on Maui burned more than 2,000 homes and buildings in Lahaina. Many churches have taken in their congregants because they have nowhere to go.

A varied group of beach-goers head to the shore in Tel Aviv on the weekly day of rest.

The opening chapter of Go Set A Watchman, Lee's first novel in 55 years, is out. Reactions ran from joy to shock — as readers coped with a plot twist and lingering doubts on the timing of its release.

Before there were digital computers, there were "human computers," women who used pencils and paper to do the math that helped carry the U.S. into space. Nathalia Holt tells their story in a new book.