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After more than 12 months of sustained outbreaks, Canada has lost its measles elimination status. Experts fear the U.S. could soon face the same fate as vaccine misinformation fuels the virus' spread.

Some of the country's highest home insurance prices are in the central U.S., a region generally considered to be protected from climate-driven disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes.

The economic indicator known as the Shiller PE Ratio is almost as high as it was in November 1999, just before the dot-com bubble burst. Is another bubble forming with AI?

A provision in the legislation to reopen the government would outlaw certain hemp products legalized by the 2018 Farm Bill, a move the hemp industry argues will kill the $30 billion market.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Sean Ono Lennon about what his mom taught him, and the new documentary about his famous parents, One to One: John and Yoko.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter about gifts from foreign governments or corporations that President Trump has accepted.

A public TV and radio station in Western Alaska serves dozens of villages damaged by Typhoon Halong. But with federal funding eliminated, KYUK makes severe cuts to its staff and news department.

As world leaders meet in Brazil to discuss climate change, Jordanians pray for rain.

Planet Money talks to immigrants in the U.S. and people in Honduras to try to figure out why remittances are surging to some countries right as it is harder for immigrants here to find work.

Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.