Before Sayyid Qutb became a leading theorist of violent jihad, he was a little-known Egyptian writer sojourning in the United States, where he attended a small teachers college on the Great Plains.

READING, Pa. – Rain, rain, please stay? Heavy rain and winds swept across Berks County and beyond on Wednesday. As dreary as it was, it's the kind of weather we have been waiting for. The U.S. Drought ...