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As many as 6,000 people died in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. Patricia Bellis Bixel, who wrote about the storm and how the city was rebuilt, details the operation for Debbie Elliott.

The 22-year-old Spaniard's win against 38-year-old rival Novak Djokovic at Sunday's Australian Open makes him the youngest male player to win all four major tournaments.

New York State Police say the man was arrested after they received word from the FBI that that he made "threats to kill a member of Congress."

In the 1990s, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page figured out how to use the structure of the Internet — the way pages link to one another — to put the most relevant items at the top of a search list. Their discovery transformed their garage startup, Google, into the Internet's top search engine, a household name and even a verb. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

We've apparently got a passion for America's Pasttime - seven spring training teams set attendance records this year, with several of those in the Tampa…

A Senate hearing on the coronavirus pandemic follows the day after the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 200,000 people. The session is underway now.

Donald Trump is indicted on felony charges related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election. How conservative media are covering the indictment. Fitch strips the U.S. of its Triple-A bond rating.

The Houston rapper's newest hit is the 83rd song in chart history to debut at the very top of Billboard's Hot 100. More than half of the songs to achieve the feat have done so in the last five years.

After 2016, nothing will make Democrats feel secure in the final weeks of a presidential election. For Joe Biden's campaign, which doesn't want voters to be complacent, the anxiety is OK.

This recipe for kimchi is from Eric Kim's debut cookbook, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home. He wrote it, and perfected it, with his mother, Jean.

The Trump administration's own actions are triggering double-digit premium increases on individual health insurance policies purchased by many consumers...

Describing the state's arguments as "baseless," federal officials this week fired back in court against Gov. Rick Scott's contention that the Obama…

Forget the Build Back Better bill or the Jan. 6 investigation. Right now, some members of Congress seem to be more focused on the holiday decorations outside their Capitol Hill offices.

Extreme heat across California is causing trouble in schools. It's straining aging air conditioning systems, making recess dangerous and highlighting ventilation problems in many classrooms.

The memorial honors the 26 children and adults killed in the 2012 shooting in Newtown. A rebuilt Sandy Hook School is now visible from the site in Newtown, Conn.

Atmospheric rivers brought record-breaking snowfall to the mountain over the winter, allowing the resort to stay open into August. It will close just shy of 100 days before the new season starts.

Although she's loath to admit it, author Cristina Henriquez used to love Sweet Valley High. She explains why this "all-American" series meant so much to her as an awkward half-Panamanian 5th grader.

The U.S. antitrust case against Google begins today. Kim Jong Un is expected to meet with Vladimir Putin in Russia. See green comet Nishimura this week before it vanishes for 400 years.

Barack Obama holds his first press conference as president-elect Friday. He's meeting with his economic advisers in Chicago beforehand to discuss plans to deal with the downturn. We look at what he's likely to see and how his advisory team is shaping up.

In her first major policy speech of her compressed campaign, Vice President Harris talked about her economic plans.

There's a new probe on Mars. After Monday's tricky landing, NASA's InSight spacecraft is to deploy a sensitive seismometer and temperature probe to let scientists explore the planet's interior.

After 10 straight rate hikes, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged Wednesday, but hinted that additional rate hikes are possible if inflation remains stubbornly high.

For the fifth consecutive week, Morgan Wallen's I'm the Problem tops the Billboard 200 albums chart. But there's plenty of volatility beneath him on the chart.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Connecticut becomes the first state to sue the federal government over the federal No Child Left Behind law. The state says the federal government is forcing it to spend millions of its own dollars on unnecessary tests.