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In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Coal hauled away from shuttered power plant

The Black Forest Fire burning near Colorado Springs is the most destructive wildfire in the state's history.

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson made viral history on the Humans of New York Instagram account. She died at 81 years old recently.

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson made viral history on the Humans of New York Instagram account. She died at 81 years old recently.

Renee Montagne talks to Fawaz Gerges of the London School of Economics and author of ISIS: A History — about the recent attacks in Istanbul, Dhaka and Baghdad that appear to be ISIS related.

When Amnesty International called the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, "a gulag of our time," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush both said that the term "gulag" was inappropriate. Commentator Peter Klein has been researching some family history about Soviet gulags and he says that Amnesty did miss their mark.

Saturday's Make Poverty History rally is under way in Edinburgh, Scotland. And a linked series of Live 8 concerts are held in nine cities across the world. The efforts are aimed at encouraging G8 leaders to take action to end poverty in Africa.

In his new memoir, Decision Points, former President George W. Bush revisits nearly all the controversial decisions of his tenure — and defends them with vigor. Historian H.W. Brands suspects history won't be as easy on Bush as Bush is on himself.

Sarah Rose's For All the Tea in China tells the story of how Britain hijacked control of the 19th century tea trade by transplanting production of the popular drink to India.