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The New York Yankees plan to name Rachel Balkovec as manager of their Low-A squad, the Tampa Tarpons.

The five-time World Series champion became a minority shareholder of the team in 2017. He was elected into baseball's Hall of Fame in 2020.

The Albany County sheriff says if charges were to be brought against the governor, he believes they would amount to a misdemeanor, or possibly a couple of misdemeanors.

The gunman in Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University had stopped taking his medication and became erratic before opening fire inside a lecture hall, police say. Five people were killed before Stephen Kazmierczack killed himself.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Victor Matheson, professor of economics at the College of the Holy Cross and a lottery expert, about the recent streak of large jackpots.

Springfield, Ill., commemorates the centenary of the Aug. 14-15 race riot of 1908. A white mob torched dozens of black-owned businesses and homes over two days of rioting. Two black men were killed and seven people died during the rioting.

Barack Obama has been elected president with 52 percent of the popular vote. A day after the result, he named his transition team. Obama will have to navigate between lawmakers like Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.), who wants new spending programs, and blue dog Democrats who want to work with pay-go rules.

Republicans pass a defense bill with unusual stipulations about abortion and diversity training. It's unlikely to pass the Senate, but still has ramifications.

People are worried that the virus could be spread by air conditioning systems. Here's what researchers do — and don't yet — know.

Blizzard warnings continued in the mountains and flood advisories blanketed the region, on Saturday. Forecasters Sunday would bring some relief, before the next storm arrives on Monday.

The shootings stretching from coast to coast follow a surge in homicides and other violence over the past several years that experts say accelerated during the coronavirus pandemic.

For nearly all its history, snowboarding has been a sport that is disproportionately white. Through his Hoods to Woods Foundation, Brian Paupaw is trying to change that.

A Norwegian knitting marathon. America's Next Top Model. British crime dramas. Real-time strategy games. Peanut soup. These are some things that help us feel better — maybe they'll work for you, too?

This nasty flu season, which has been worsening for months, may finally be leveling off.

Jerry Craft published the Newbury award-winning graphic novel New Kid in 2019. The novel focuses on the experience of being Black and the "new kid" at a predominantly white school.

The allegations were laid out in an internal complaint sent by unidentified "concerned WHO staff" to senior leadership.

Singer and guitarist Isaac Brock speaks with Arun Rath about Strangers to Ourselves, the group's first album in eight years — and what he's learned in the meantime about being in bands.

Twenty-two-year-old Simone Fratus is sitting in a computer lab at the Art Institute of Tampa, doing homework with a friend."Right now, I have on…

This week, incoming House speaker Chris Sprowls published a list of proposed rule changes for the chamber during his two-year term.

People in Alameda were surprised to find the station decorated with a blooming corpse flower, which can grow 15 feet tall with a smell that gives them their name. Solomon Leyva had put his on display.

The Senate has to vote on that request by the end of this week or it expires.

Jennifer Koh is shaking up the long-established chamber music program at the Kennedy Center with innovative programming and community engagement. An example of that is her collaboration with pianist-composer Missy Mazzoli.

On Thursday, the court is looking at what kind of power courts have to pause a president's executive actions.

In November 2022, Moreland decided to take a break from performing. He also went off social media for six months. The result was the album "Visitor."

Ketamine is a hallucinogenic drug. But in recent years, it’s become a legit therapeutic option for hard-to-treat depression.