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It comes as some residents and park goers push back on a developer's proposed plan to build a hotel, restaurant, and more on the park's land.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Jon Ralston, editor of The Nevada Independent, about the results of their high-profile Senate race and the role Latino voters played.

U.S. employers added 216,000 jobs in December, capping off a solid year for the labor market. Businesses added 2.7 million jobs in 2023, despite the weight of rising interest rates.

Taurean Green will continue working with the Gators' men's basketball team despite being accused of sexual assault, according to head coach Todd Golden, who criticized a process that is supposed to be confidential.

Vast numbers of Central American children are streaming into the U.S., overwhelming the agencies charged with their care. Outbreaks of chicken pox and scabies have been reported at some centers.

A federal judge has put on hold a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Florida law requiring age verification for access to websites with adult content.

The fires in Los Angeles have the potential to bankrupt the state's insurer-of-last resort for homes in places commercial insurers have fled.

The 2024 election was widely considered to be run fairly by majorities of political parties. But so-called "election integrity advocates" who think 2020 was stolen are already making plans for 2025.

Hiring slowed a bit in March, as U.S. employers added 236,000 jobs. The unemployment rate dipped to 3.5%, even as nearly half-a-million new people joined the workforce.

Two months after the deadly earthquakes in southern Turkey, millions of survivors are coping with the mental health toll of the horrific disaster.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince about the acting prime minister's request for security after gangs last week massacred at least 70 people in a rural community.

Airline CEOs say it's time to end the requirement that everyone wear masks in airports and on planes. The Biden administration has extended the mask mandate until mid-April.

Named after the first American to orbit Earth, the New Glenn rocket blasted off from Florida, soaring from the same pad used to launch NASA's Mariner and Pioneer spacecraft a half-century ago.

About 67% of 12th-graders said they hadn’t used alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes or e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days. That’s the largest percentage seen in an annual national survey.

A lawsuit filed by sugar growers this week claimed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated a congressional order to protect water supplies and asked a judge to send the reservoir back to the Corps for a new environmental review.

A report by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee found additional travel taken in 2021 by Thomas but not reported on his annual financial disclosure, including trips on private jets and a yacht trip.

The Motion Picture Academy hopes that more popular films, an earlier showtime, and increased diversity among nominees will lead to higher viewership.

The morning after the measure passed both chambers, Gov. Ron DeSantis said “the veto pen is ready” as soon as lawmakers send him the bill.

President-elect Donald Trump picks a fight with California Governor Gavin Newsom as the wildfires burn, and was sentenced this week.

Kamala Harris has been appealing to non-MAGA Republicans. Donald Trump isn't softening his message. In an interview that aired on Fox News, he cast his ideological opponents as threats to the country.

Since the very start of the pandemic Germany has had armies of tracers following the contacts of every confirmed coronavirus case, keeping the number of deaths there relatively low.

North Korea has claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb, which is far more powerful than an atomic bomb. Experts think they may have pulled it off.

Howard Bryant of ESPN.com and ESPN the magazine joins NPR's Scott Simon to talk about the MLB season winding down, and the wave of women in leadership in the NBA as the basketball season begins.

The recording device was a critical piece of the aircraft that investigators were searching for. It will be sent to a lab in Washington, D.C., for evaluation.

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.