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Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades later, their shor...

The recently signed mutual defense treaty could be used to justify thewidening of the war in Ukraine, as the U.S. says North Korean and Russ...

Despite outspending Republicans, Democrats didn't achieve some ambitious goals in state legislative races. The GOP continues to control more...

There's a police check to exit the subway, another to get in line, a third while standing in line, and metal detectors and X-ray machines be...

President Biden is in Lima, Peru, where he's meeting with leaders from the Asia-Pacific region, including Chinese President Xi Jinping. It's...

Burgum ran in the 2024 Republican presidential primary. He then became a vocal supporter of Preesident-elect Donald Trump and was shortliste...

A Bastrop, Texas, man was working in a trench when it collapsed. He died a week later.

Lich Vu has been in the hospital since the Oct. 27 incident that left him with a brain bleed and a broken neck. The altercation with the pol...

Four LA residents allegedly defrauded multiple insurance companies of over $141,000. A wildlife expert who reviewed footage of the incidents...

Fla. Attorney General Ashley Moody is suing Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell, and a former FEMA supervisor...

The next supermoon — which appears larger and brighter than a regular full moon due to its proximity to Earth — will not be visible for near...

Foreign laborers, many from Thailand, are tending fields and livestock in an area Israel has declared off-limits to its own civilians amid o...

Australia plans to require social media platforms to act to prevent online harms to users such as bullying, predatory behavior and algorithm...

Several of President Biden's efforts at loan relief are in jeopardy, including a repayment plan with millions of borrowers waiting in limbo.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Penn State labor and employment relations professor Paul Clark about blue-collar voters and their decision t...

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks the Brookings Institution's Jon Valant about President-elect Trump's campaign promise to close the Department of Ed...

The U.S. says that Israel will not face consequences for failing to meet U.S. demands to provide more aid to avoid mass starvation in Gaza....

California voters have overwhelmingly approved strengthening penalties for certain theft and drug crimes. They also ousted Los Angeles Count...

Following the nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as secretary of defense, we ask a retired Marine colonel and military expert Mark Can...

Ted Olson, the Bush-era solicitor general, has died at age 84. He was a towering figure in the legal profession who argued 65 cases at the S...

North Korea and Russia each ratified a mutual defense treaty within days of each other. The pact means the countries will defend one another...

After back-to-back hurricanes triggered millions of power outages in Florida, power companies are trying to make the grid more resilient whi...

The former Democratic congresswoman has shifted her political allegiance in recent years, going from a candidate for the Democratic presiden...

A similar hearing last year brought extraordinary moments, including a retired intelligence officer alleging that the U.S. government has re...

With wars raging around the world and high tariffs looming, Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes says Trump's agenda may be chaoti...