Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK. Lady Anne Clifford, a 17th century aristocrat, left manuscript evidence of how women challenged male authority in the Britain of her time.

Clifford’s 600,000-word Great Books of Record documents the trials and triumphs of her family dynasty over six centuries and her bitter battle to inherit castles and villages across northern England.

Garrison, NY, USA. A report says that affordable and accessible whole genome sequencing will result in massive amounts of information with meanings we don't yet understand.

The conclusions are from an article in the Hastings Center Report by current or former scholars at the Department of Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Washington, DC, USA. Most states have received waivers from the federal No Child Left Behind law, but some have found flexibility harder to come by.

With the majority of states no longer abiding by the ten-year old federal law, some experts have concluded that it has effectively been overturned. But some of the remaining 17 states are finding that the feds can be pretty stubborn when it comes to allowing wholesale changes in the law’s provisions.

Columbus, OH, USA. Research shows that sexual infidelity accusations made by one or both of the partners in a heterosexual domestic relationship can trigger felony violence.

Researchers monitored jailhouse phone calls between men charged with felony domestic violence, for the first time allowing visibility into what exactly had triggered episodes of violent abuse. Among the factors, drug or alcohol use was often involved.

Washington, DC, USA. Threatened budget cuts would cut off food stamps for millions in states all over the country, but a Congressional stalemate may stave off the pain.

Capitol Hill inaction has been blamed for everything from near-shutdowns of the federal government to a historic downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, but a stalemate over a sweeping farm bill set back the clock on impending budget cuts that worries states and safety net advocates around the country.