AP - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist."

AP - Every afternoon, seven days a week, Ed Epley has a 5 p.m. appointment with the war.

AP - A spacewalking astronaut put aside the impending birth of his daughter and concentrated instead on his first-ever venture outside the International Space Station on Saturday.

AP - The number of Americans traveling away from home for Thanksgiving will be up only slightly this year from 2008, according to a report from the AAA auto club.