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A Pennsylvania coroner's office said investigators believe they have located the body of 64-year-old Elizabeth Pollard, who was last seen four days earlier near a sinkhole above a shuttered coal mine.
NPR NewsIt started in the Eisenhower era: Every year, Wisdom, a Layan albatross, has returned to her nesting grounds on the Midway Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
NPR NewsThe EV1 was the first modern, mass-produced electric vehicle from a major automaker — pioneering some technologies you can still find in today's EVs. But the model was controversial, and short-lived.
NPR NewsAfter President Yoon Suk Yeol's failed attempt to impose martial law, South Korea's parliament will vote Saturday on his impeachment. Yoon's own party chief has called for his powers to be suspended.
NPR NewsTikTok has been facing down a January divest-or-be-banned deadline. The company filed a lawsuit challenging the law, which was heard before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.
NPR NewsA federal appeals court agreed that the viral video app must be sold off by its China-based parent company, rejecting TikTok's claim that the crackdown violates the free speech rights of millions of Americans.
NPR NewsPresident-elect Donald Trump has promised to make the U.S. the planet's "crypto capital." Here's why critics are concerned. And, gift ideas this holiday season for five personality types.
NPR NewsThe tiny ray spider uses launches its web to grab its prey out of the air. Though common practice in the superhero world, this ability is actually unusual in spiders.
NPR NewsWith anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in charge of the nation's biggest health agency, it wouldn't take much tampering to enable vaccine-preventable diseases to make a comeback.
NPR NewsIn this week's StoryCorps, two friends recall a harrowing ski trip in the Colorado mountains.
NPR NewsThe manhunt for the person who fatally shot the head of one of the country's largest health insurers in New York City entered its third day Friday as police parsed newly discovered clues.
NPR NewsAlso in your grab bag of weekly trivia: martial law, bitcoin, the first lady's holiday décor, a Kennedy who's not RFK Jr., brain rot and the popemobile.
NPR NewsPeople are sharing the different tactics they use help to uplift women in small ways.
NPR NewsAnyone can be photogenic. It just takes practice. A model and a posing coach share postures and movements to help you get more comfortable in front of the camera.
NPR NewsWith efforts to bolster the federal Voting Rights Act unlikely under Republican control of the new Congress, advocates are refocusing on state protections against racial discrimination in elections.
NPR NewsThe death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson triggered a deluge of painful stories about health care denials on social media.
NPR NewsThree mountain climbers — two from the U.S. and one from Canada — missing for five days on Aoraki, New Zealand's tallest peak, are believed to have died in a fall, the authorities said Friday.
NPR NewsWith his nomination, Trump is leaning on a former business executive-turned politician to serve as the administration's envoy to America's most potent economic and military adversary.
NPR NewsRodney Scott at CBP and Caleb Vitello at ICE would work alongside Stephen Miller, who was named deputy chief of staff for policy and Tom Homan, also tapped to be a "border czar."
NPR NewsRising from the sand on Miami Beach are what appear to be the sails of a buried Spanish galleon. It's a piece created by Tlingit/Unangax artist Nicholas Galanin.
NPR NewsChile is poised to create it's 47th national part in the coming year, protecting wilderness at the southern tip of South America. That's thanks in large part to the work of a U.S. conservationist and her organization. We go to the bottom of the world to see the stunning landscape that will make up the park.
NPR NewsBacklash against massive solar energy farms drove strong rural turnout in Nevada may have helped flip the presidential vote there to Republican for the first time since 2004. But it's not a given Trump will derail President Biden's plans for more Nevada solar.
NPR NewsThe political instability in France — and simultaneously in Germany, where the governing coalition collapsed a month ago — could have wide-ranging consequences.
NPR NewsThe mission to take four astronauts on a trip around the moon and back, previously targeting a launch at the end of 2025, has been delayed until at least April, 2026.
NPR NewsAn unidentified illness has claimed 80 lives in DRC. Investigators are on the scenes to determine what it is — and how much of a threat it poses to locally and globally
NPR NewsPope Francis, who heads the Catholic Church, has doubled down on his commitment to the environment with a new electric popemobile presented by Mercedes-Benz.
NPR NewsA powerful earthquake has struck off the northern California coast. Several aftershocks continue to rattle the area off Eureka.
NPR NewsA federal judge in Texas has rejected a plea deal between Boeing and the U.S. Justice Department, saying the court should play a bigger role in selecting an independent monitor to oversee the company.
NPR NewsA Justice Department investigation launched after the beating death of Tyre Nichols in 2023 found that "Memphis police officers regularly violate the rights of the people they are sworn to serve."
NPR NewsShell casings with the cryptic words "deny," "defend" and "depose" were found at the scene of the fatal shooting of the UnitedHealthcare CEO outside of a Manhattan hotel, police officials say.