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There were extreme weather patterns across parts of the U.S. over the weekend. A storm was bearing down on the Northern Plains. In the Southeast, a tornado touched down in Hattiesburg, Miss. And in the Northeast, residents are digging out after a major storm dumped record snowfall in some areas. Rain is expected to make things even worse in that region.

In a new book, Christopher Leonard chronicles how Koch Industries acquired huge businesses, limited its liability and created a political influence network to remake the GOP.

Kayley Henderson had her first lesson in school safety long before she became a fourth-grade teacher at Bent Elementary in Bloomington. She was a senior…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service keeps trying, and failing, to get grizzly bears taken off the endangered species list. Some worry that frustration over this could hurt efforts to protect the bears.

Hundreds of thousands of people belong to sea glass organizations and Facebook pages.

Something went boom in outer space and sent radioactive stardust our way, and it's just been found at the bottom of the ocean.

Doctors say India's battle with COVID-19 has led to an unprecedented rise in mucormycosis, a rare but dangerous fungal infection that preys on people with weakened immune systems.

NPR speaks to the band Big Thief about their latest, 20-song project.

The Biden administration catalogued 175,000 square miles of old growth and mature forests on federal land. It plans a new rule to better protect woodlands from fires and other climate change effects.

It's not just a developed world problem. One of the authors of Food Foolish talks about the problem in low-income countries, where food often decays in the fields or spoils on the way to market.