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A Powerball player in Arkansas won a $1.817 billion jackpot in Wednesday’s Christmas Eve drawing, ending the lottery game’s three-month stretch without a [...]

Richard Beaven for NPR, via Cory Lee, Zayrha Rodriguez/NPR and via Karen Lohr Eileen Schoch traveled to her mother’s funeral in Asheville, N.C. and found the hotel room [...]

Stephanie Keith/Getty Images In the span of less than 72 hours, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Victor Mojica went from being widely vilified and placed on [...]

Warning: This story may make you think twice about your holiday shopping and how those shiny, new gifts you’re buying might long outlast the joy they bring. Or at [...]

Crime fell across much of the U.S. in 2025 — in the Midwest, the South, the Northeast and the West, in big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. The number of [...]

HAIFA, Israel — St. Louis the King Cathedral is festooned with string lights for the annual Christmas tree-lighting ceremony. The multitude pressed between the [...]

Many people may see foreign reporting as glamorous, but a lot of the time it’s quite lonely. So I was lucky to find Salon Jaffa in the Jaffa flea market while on [...]

The 2025 hurricane season was a study in contrasts. In one way, it felt very quiet in the United States. No storms made landfall in the U.S. for the first time since 2015. [...]

Peter Paplanus/Flickr CC BY 2.0 In ancient times, people thought moist-skinned salamanders could survive in fire. That’s not true, of course, but some salamanders have [...]

TriggerPhoto/iStockphoto/Getty Images Carmen Peterson’s son Ethan is a big fan of Elmo and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. And although Ethan is nonverbal, he loves to sing [...]