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President-elect Donald Trump and his newest top-lieutenant, Elon Musk, have sent Washington scrambling to avoid a government shutdown, even before Trump takes office.

Afghanistan is a mountainous land where mountain climbing is rare among men and virtually nonexistent among women. An American is now preparing young Afghan women to scale the country's highest peak.

Apple Daily was closed, universities were muzzled and prominent activists were either jailed or exiled. The national security law has surely made an impact in Hong Kong in its first year in force.

Republicans jockey for options to restrict abortions nationwide. Nebraska voters will decide who will be their GOP candidate for governor. The prime minister of Sri Lanka resigns after protests.

After a two year dry spell, Hollywood's summer blockbusters finally busted some blocks this year. Now, the question is how to keep that momentum going.

The book gives tips, strategies and anecdotes for parents of middle schoolers.

After flames destroyed 1.3 million Joshua trees in Mojave National Preserve, biologists began replanting seedlings. But many have died, and now another fire has torched more of the iconic succulents.

In this series, NPR takes readers and listeners inside NPR and explains how we do our journalism. Here, Eleanor Beardsley shares what it's like to report from Paris, which is experiencing extreme heat due to climate change, for this week's Reporter's Notebook.

Nonprofit federally funded health centers are a linchpin in the nation’s health care safety net because they treat the medically underserved. The average profit margins is 5%, but some have recorded margins of 20% or more in three of the past four years.

Young conservative voters aren't a monolith. They have different policy priorities and different views on what role former President Trump should play in the Republican Party.

Drainage has exposed the fertile soils of the Everglades Agricultural Area, a region responsible for much of the nation’s sugar cane.

Agreeing to an out-of-network doctor's financial policy, which protects their ability to get paid and may be littered with confusing jargon, can create a binding contract that leaves a patient owing.

Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf has been a U.S. ally since the Sept. 11 attacks, but his hold on power is as tenuous as ever. On Friday, the Pakistani Supreme Court overruled his decision to dismiss the chief justice. Islamists are furious with him. And President Bush accuses him of failing to go after al-Qaida militants.

Wuhan Hongxin Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. was supposed to be one of China's most advanced chipmakers. Now it's bankrupt — a big flop at a time when the country seeks technological self-reliance.

Florida Democrats pushed health care as a top priority during this year’s elections, hammering Republicans for attempts to repeal Obamacare and the...

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants all Florida businesses to use a system to prevent undocumented immigrants from getting jobs in the state, but a powerful…

Gov. Ron DeSantis was criticized last year for not having a health care platform while he campaigned for the state’s top job.

The weekend's NCAA men's college basketball tournament saw some close games. Top seeds Gonzaga and Georgetown lost. Florida Gulf Coast University became the first 15th seed to win two games in tournament history.

The first official GOP presidential debate is Thursday night in Cleveland. The top 10 candidates — according to an average of five recent national polls — will be on stage. And the seven other candidates will participate in a forum before the debate.

When businesses have accused Google of antitrust violations in the past, they've often focused on its key asset: search. We look at the complaints, and Google's response.

The USA Network recently announced a seven-part television series following competitions on the Major League Gaming tour. The tour follows top-tier video gamers who travel from city to city competing in tournaments. Madeleine Brand speaks to Major League Gaming's co-founder, Sundance DiGiovanni, about bringing the tour to television.

Iran and the Bush administration remain locked in a dispute over Iran's nuclear program -- Iran insists it has a right to develop nuclear power, but the White House believes Iran intends on building nuclear weapons. Madeleine Brand talks with NPR senior diplomatic correspondent Mike Shuster about the international response to Iran's refusal to end its uranium enrichment program.

A big part of Donald Trump's proposed tax cut would go to corporations. The president-elect says that will fuel investment and growth; critics say the plan would explode the federal budget deficit.

Some of the worst-paid farmers in Ethiopia were able to get their bean to the specialty coffee ball and sell to top U.S. roasters like Stumptown. But it only happened after the growers got organized and attracted the attention of coffee prospectors from the U.S.

A blend of memoir and fieldwork account, "The Arbornaut" chronicles the work of Sarasota-based tree canopy scientist Meg Lowman.