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After 150 years, the era of the telegram came to a quiet end last week. Romanticized in film and song, the hand-delivered paper messages were made useless by telephones and e-mail.

In a stunning reversal of fortune, it now seems likely that Pluto will lose its title of planet. Scientists meeting in Prague were presented with a new definition of the word "planet" last week, which would have included Pluto as a planet. But the proposal met with fierce protests. Opponents say there are hundreds of objects like Pluto.

The Sun-Maid Raisin Girl is turning 90, but she never wrinkles. The company has decided once again to update her looks. Now she's going to be digitized for appearances in TV commercials.

The trademark illustrations in The Wall Street Journal look like engravings. But they're actually intricate pointilist portraits. Petra Mayer visits stipple artist Noli Novak at her New Jersey studio.

More than 13,070 U.S. troops have been injured in Iraq, with just over half of those injured unable to return to duty. One recovering soldier is 32-year-old Robert Bartlett, an Army scout with the 3rd Infantry Division, whose face and hands were badly injured by a roadside bomb in May.

In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo Thursday, President Obama said Iran had a clear choice on the future it wants to build for its people. Borzou Daragahi, Middle East correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, says reaction to the comments has been mixed in the Islamic Republic.

Music writer Rob Sheffield makes mix tapes for every moment in his life, and those tapes helped him cope with the untimely death of his wife. Debbie Elliott talks to Sheffield about the power of the mix, and about his new book Love Is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time.

The Princess of Wales announced earlier this year she had been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer.

2019 has officially begun, and it's time to make some resolutions on how to handle dangerous chemicals, like PFAS. In this week's "Issues of the…

Sasha Issenberg, author of The Engagement, a history of marriage equality, says he doesn't see the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges being overturned anytime soon.