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Firefighters aided by aircraft battled a wind-driven wildfire burning in an area straddling the San Francisco Bay Area and central California, authorities said.

In Texas, the El Paso Zoo offered to name a cockroach after exes and feed it to meerkats on a webstream for Valentine's Day. The response has been massive.

Healthcare jobs are already stressful. Add a pandemic ... and ongoing police brutality? And it's a lot. We hear from physicians of color and TED Fellow Laurel Braitman about taking care of ourselves.

Aging can be a lifeline for immigrants, like my parents, whose life was defined by work.

The FAA is investigating after several drones plummeted into a downtown Orlando crowd during a weekend holiday display, severely injuring a 7-year-old boy.

Snooty, the longest living manatee in captivity, died Sunday in Bradenton, a day after a huge party to celebrate his 69th birthday, according to the South…

Employees in the programs will be placed on paid administrative leave. Agencies have the next few days to submit reports on how they are complying with the orders, including plans to fire them.

The action comes as the Legislature weighed measures to give local law enforcement more authority to enforce federal immigration laws and place enforcement under the Department of Agriculture.

It's the first time New York students will have the day off for the Lunar New Year since a new state law was signed in 2023. In 2024, the holiday fell on a Saturday.

Attorney General James Uthmeier said he's directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in what he calls “the now-active investigation into the Tate brothers.”

Emojis have popped up in a handful of court cases across the country. Could the ubiquitous yellow face, a sad kitty head or a dancing alien decide a defendant's fate?

In the weeks leading up to the 20th anniversary of 9/11, NPR set up a phone booth in New York City and invited people to leave voicemails for someone they lost that day. Here's what they had to say.

The new Mote Science Education Aquarium (SEA) will open to the public on Wednesday, Oct. 8. Here's what to know.

An appeals court is pausing another judge’s order to stop development at an immigrant detention center in South Florida. The decision is part of an ongoing legal battle to protect the Everglades from what officials dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Since childhood, Joshua Roman's life revolved around the cello. But when long COVID forced him to set his cello aside, he had to rethink his approach to life, faith and music.

Progressive Christian writer and speaker Rachel Held Evans has died at the age of 37.

For holiday shoppers, retailers' approach to fees, returns and other practices can bring praise or anger. And when customers rant or rave, Consumer Reports takes note — and compiles them into its annual "Naughty and Nice" list of companies.

OpenAI said Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.

The 350-room hotel, located on the east side of the instillation, was evacuated "out of abundance of caution," after receiving an unspecified threat.

On Saturday, the Northern Maine Ice Busters created the world's largest ice carousel, a rotating disk of ice on a frozen Long Lake in Madawaska.

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The wind shifts from the south during the middle of the week, and a high-pressure system brings another round of record-high temperatures to many cities across Florida this week.

Four people are dead and eight people were injured in the shooting. Deputies who responded to the scene engaged the attacker in a shootout in a classroom building.

NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with journalist George Packer, who profiled Afghan's most recent president, Ashraf Ghani, for The New Yorker in 2016.

There was no immediate word on casualties from the reported strike on the art school situated in the embattled port city of Mariupol.