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Five Ways to Track Hurricane Irene on Twitter

As Hurricane Irene swirls through the Atlantic and appears on a beeline path for the Carolinas, Twitter has become the ultimate source for real-time information about her wind speed, location and impending direction. Here are the tweeters you should be following to keep up with where Irene could make landfall.

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How You Can Help the Tornado Victims in the South

As residents begin the daunting task of cleanup after the storm destruction, here are some ways you can help from wherever you are.

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Secret Guantanamo Files, New Insights: Hundreds Held ‘Just in Case.’

Guantanamo files revealed by Wikileaks shed light on 780 people who passed through the facility in Cuba, of which only 220 have been assessed by Americans to be dangerous international terrorists.

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Folding for Japan: Children Make Origami Cranes to Raise Money for Tsunami Victims

Question: Why are children’s fundraisers always the best fundraisers?

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Text Message Donations: Aiding or Stifling Relief Efforts in Japan?

In an age when you can balance your bank account or make dinner reservations from your cell phone, it’s no surprise that disaster relief efforts have gone mobile.

Residents are evacuated from the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's massive earthquake

Online Offering: Send Aid to Japan Using Social Media

Here’s how you can help out without going AFK.

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Red Cross Gives Update on Haiti Relief

Four months after an earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital city of Port-au-Prince, conditions there have shown little improvement.