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Fears of renewed inflation are weighing on people's economic mood. That could affect their spending and the broader economic outlook.

The tiny Seattle suburb of SeaTac, home to the airport of the same name, is the latest front in the battle for "living wage" ordinances. On this fall's ballot is a measure mandating a $15 an hour floor for large hospitality and transportation companies. $15 is higher than the base wage in neighboring suburbs, but the heart of economic activity in SeaTac is the international airport — and that's not about to move.

House committees are planning a series of hearings this week to advance legislation around President Trump's agenda.

President Trump rattled markets again Friday with new tariff threats. The president is calling for high taxes on imported iPhones and goods from Europe.

Schools Superintendent Van Ayres said he trusts his media specialists and will have inappropriate materials yanked from shelves ahead of the 2025-26 school year.

Khartoum, Sudan's capital city has recently been liberated by the Sudanese army after two years of occupation. NPR visited found a hollowed out and shattered city devastated by the civil war.

The rapper's Instagram account says his lungs collapsed after he was stabbed 14 times, but he is "in good spirits." Lanez is serving a 10-year sentence for shooting Megan Thee Stallion in 2020.

Florida Senate President Ben Albritton wrote in a memo that he believes they are making progress but are not in a position to begin the budget conference next week.

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted 4-1 at a meeting in favor of a bear hunt in December and annually into the future, allowing the use of up to six dogs to corner the bears.

The Trump administration is withholding $75 million designated for the news outlet. EU officials say RFE/RL has played a critical role in providing news to areas where the press can't operate freely.

Hells Canyon is the deepest river canyon in the United States. Now scientists have solved the mystery of when it formed.

In recent years, Catholic bishops have spent millions on campaigns to defeat abortion rights measures at the ballot box. This year, they're taking a dramatically different approach.

Florida A&M is one of several universities across the country that lost grant funding from NIH this calendar year, as the Trump administration sought to cap the agency’s for indirect costs and/or overhead expenses for universities.

President Trump lashed out on Twitter against Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation ahead of expected court filings in that probe. He also announced his pick for a new attorney general.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port in southern Iran possibly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant.

Jocelyn Pook has written award-winning music for the theater, dance and the concert stage. Her work can be heard right now in cinemas on the score to 'The Wife' and in households in the Netflix series 'The Staircase.'

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point. How much further rates fall could depend on how President-elect Trump approaches his second term.

After successfully ending the practice of spreading biosolids, Desoto residents brace for the possibility it may return

It's not easy to bring such cases. That's because the federal government is generally immune from being sued, except in certain circumstances set out by Congress.

A gunman shot and killed a reporter and her videographer Wednesday on live television in Virginia. The suspect, a disgruntled former station employee, then posted his own video of the shootings on social media, and later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

When Casey Corcoran found his email address in the adultery website's customer database, he told his wife. It was a mistake, and he wanted her to know that. Then they did some computer forensics.

An Israeli airstrikes have killed what it said was a Hezbollah leader and hundreds of people in Lebanon. Thousands of people who fled airstrikes in the south arrived in Beirut searching for shelter.

An hour into Wednesday's botched execution in Arizona, an attorney for the inmate reached out to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy seeking his intervention. How do such appeals work? And how often do they happen?

Big primaries in Maryland and West Virginia could have implications for the Senate in November — and signal fights ahead for Democrats.

Tropical Storm Ernesto is expected to pass over Puerto Rico late Tuesday night, which could bring flooding, landslides and power outages. The island has closed schools and opened shelters.