The attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 Japanese civilians, poisoned a generation of survivors and ...

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Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb says Metropolitan Police Department officers must follow local policies that ...

The National Hurricane Center expects the storm to strengthen over the next several days and says it could become a hurricane ...

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What if you could set up some panels in your backyard or hang them off your balcony and start making a dent in your power bill? Organizations are trying to bring "balcony solar" to the U.S.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with chair of the Council of the District of Columbia, Phil Mendelson, about President Trump's emergency declaration and National Guard deployment in Washington, D.C.

For four decades, an English professor at San Jose State University has run a fiction contest for a single opening sentence to "the worst of all possible novels." He has decided to retire the contest.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

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Rates of the world's deadliest cancer appear to be low in sub-Saharan Africa. But that statistic is masking the scope of the ...