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Last week, the jury found that a story about an alleged gang rape on campus defamed an administrator of the University of Virginia. When claims in the piece were challenged, the magazine retracted it.

Members of the North Dakota congressional delegation say the acting secretary of the Army has ordered the Corps of Engineers to proceed with an easement needed to complete the pipeline.

The Nord Stream pipeline leak might be the single largest release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. Experts say it pales in comparison to ongoing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

Latin American migrant workers help fill Florida's construction worker shortage. But many feel overlooked by hurricane relief — and demonized.

According a civil action filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday, the entertainers allegedly sexually abused a brother and sister when they were age 7 and 14.

But a state health department official said concerns remain about copper and lead levels in the city water. The official said people should continue to avoid using it to prepare baby formula.

Many in Ukraine are unfazed by the news that Russia is mobilizing 300,000 troops — and are instead going to McDonald's, which has just reopened.

Ed Gordon discusses how morality shapes political ideology in America with Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago and author of the book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought

Experts call the money pouring into reproductive rights groups an example of "rage giving." Pro-choice advocates say their next challenge is building sustained support.

After a crisis, not all of the help that's given is necessary: People send stuffed animals when they should be sending diapers. New ways of managing donations are now getting the appropriate help.

Licensing rules are supposed to protect the public. But they also raise prices and make it harder for people to find work.

Writer David Rowell always imagined what a seaside town with a boardwalk could be. He found it as an adult, on Delaware's Rehoboth Beach.

Gusts above 90 mph have turned over trucks, knocked down trees and cut power to many. Winds have also been roaring across Southern California and Nevada.

A prosecutor in Atlanta says he is dropping charges against two white police officers because he believes race was not a factor in the deadly 2020 shooting of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man.

Could you be happy in a condo unit in a building next to an 800-bed jail? What if the jail had shopping on the ground floor? Brooklyn's corrections commissioner is proposing just such a project.

Anthropologists and archeologists long believed humans evolved in Asia. So when a set of hominid remains was discovered in Africa, it took a while for the find to stick. In Born in Africa, author Martin Meredith details the battles in the search for the origins of human life.

The cause of the explosion has not been determined. At least 11 of the 39 homes damaged are "uninhabitable," the fire department's chief told the Evansville Courier & Press.

Revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention looks to minimize COVID-19's disruption of daily life while conceding that the pandemic isn't over.

Only high-risk individuals can access monkeypox vaccines rights now, but the health department in Hillsborough says it has enough shots for them.

In February 2002, journalist Peter Heller accompanied seven extreme kayakers on an attempt to paddle down the Tsangpo river gorge in Tibet. He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about the experience and his book, Hell or High Water.

In northern Arizona, national forests are being closed because of extreme fire danger. That's forcing homeless families and individuals out of the forest and into the city for services.

A New York-to-Music City transplant presents a biting critique of the Americana music business.

Stream the rock and roll pioneer's final album, featuring appearances by Tom Morello and Gary Clark Jr.

After the crossover success of 2013's Sunbather, New Bermuda is a resounding rebuttal to complacency. Entrenched in dark and decidedly classic metal moves, it's got a seeking spirit that rages.

The Flatbush, Brooklyn rap duo explores the concept of opposites, both complementary and contradictory, on their sophomore album.