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Parents, kids, aunts and a cousin gather on Black Friday to make a big batch to mail around the country. It's shared far and wide at Christmastime and was featured on a bike ride across Iowa.

In wake of George Floyd's killing and the Black Lives Matter protests, conversations about race in America have a new urgency. Here's how Black parents are having 'the talk' with their children today.

New York Times journalist Hannah Dreier says hundreds of thousands of immigrant kids are working illegally. Washington Post reporter Jacob Bogage explains how states are loosening child labor laws.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have left Gaza in the past year, as conditions there have worsened.

Rights groups estimate as many as 1 million Uighurs are detained in Chinese camps, with the aim of stripping away their ethnic identity, suppressing their Muslim faith and ensuring loyalty to China.

Gov. Josh Green warns that the death toll, currently at 53, will continue to rise.

With his term soon to expire, Social Security chief Martin O’Malley’s efforts to address the agency’s overpayments to beneficiaries remain incomplete.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

A Sarasota-area community’s effort to save its golf course by forming a special-purpose government district and issuing $24 million in public bonds has devolved into a bitter, yearslong feud over cost, governance and transparency.

Donald Trump's lawyers presented a spirited defense of the former president in their first and only day of presentations. Questions from the senators could commence as soon as Friday.

David Grann discusses his book about an 18th-century British warship that wrecked along the coast of Patagonia. Martin Scorsese is slated to direct the film adaptation. Originally broadcast in 2023.

Journalist Will Sommer went to road shows and spoke to believers and their families while investigating QAnon. His book, Trust the Plan, makes the case that there are more conspiracy theories to come.

Top Senate and House budget negotiators met Wednesday but did not make public offers on health care spending.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Wormuth as Army secretary Thursday morning. She joins many other women in senior national security positions in the Biden administration.

Interstate 4 is the deadliest road in the U.S., according to a study produced by Teletrac Navman, a transportation technology company.Between 2011 and…

The idea of "green" roofs -- covering the tops of buildings with plants, trees and grasses -- is as ancient as Mesopotamia. Touted as a solution to pollution and other environmental problems, they're increasingly showing up around the country. NPR's Ketzel Levine reports.

The Harry Styles song has managed to stay No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for 15 weeks. That's a feat topped by only three other songs in history.

The top commander in Iraq testifed about the status of the year-long "surge," on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

The Grammy-winning rapper, who spent this summer topping the charts, previously performed at the 2022 Super Bowl halftime show. But this will be his first Super Bowl as the headliner.

A station to detect nuclear weapons tests picked up the volcanic eruption in Tonga from Antarctica. Some experts say the blast could be more than 50 megatons, while NASA estimates 6-10 megatons.

The days leading up to California's Democratic presidential primary offered a glimpse into everything that went right — and wrong — with Bernie Sanders' presidential bid.

The same fire that consumed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge is rapidly eating through nearby timber

Under Senate President Wilton Simpson’s plan, members of the public will have to watch and testify remotely. House Speaker Chris Sprowls has embraced a somewhat more relaxed stance.

In 1957, residents of the southwestern town Protection set an example by being the first in the U.S. to be fully inoculated against polio. Now locals are divided on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

For the second straight year, the communal arts festival isn't happening because of the pandemic. But the community that hosts the pilgrimage doesn't mind.