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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wins confirmation to be President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The vote was 52 to 48.
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The public broadcaster says it is closing its Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office to comply with a recent executive order from President Donald Trump.
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A new study looks at the reduction in mortality among vulnerable babies if kangaroo care — skin-to-skin contact — is started soon after birth.
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Composer Robert Beaser has been fired from the renowned performing arts conservatory after an independent investigation found that he had broken Juilliard policies and "misrepresented facts."
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The former president has been indicted on seven counts, including willful retention of information related to national defense and at least one false statements charge, a source tells NPR.
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As most New Yorkers isolated inside this week to avoid the hazardous smoke that enveloped the city, one man was rushing ramen across town for a customer's dinner.
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The U.S. territory is home to more than 170,000 residents in the western Pacific Ocean. Guam was walloped by a power typhoon in late May and the recovery is slow going as power and water are restored.
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It's the latest example of how generative AI tools enable politicians to blur the line between fact and fiction.
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"I still hate LIV. Like, I hate it. I hope it goes away," Rory McIlroy, the world's no. 3 player, said of the new deal between the PGA Tour and the Saudi fund behind LIV.
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Millions of Americans are under air quality alerts as wildfires burn in Canada. Experts say the weather pattern could change by early next week, and stress the need to take precautions until then.
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A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.
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Everyone knows that red means danger, but how did purple become a cautionary color? At an EPA conference in the late 1990s, attendees nearly came to blows over color coding on the Air Quality Index.