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A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with meteorologist Tom Di Liberto {DEE la-bert-oh} with the nonprofit news organization Climate Central about flash flood warnings preceding the deadly central Texas foods.

Stocks tumbled Monday after President Trump threatened to impose new import taxes on more than a dozen countries. Trump pushed back the effective date of those tariffs, however, until Aug. 1.

Leaders in the BRICS group of emerging economies ended their recent summit with calls for less confrontation in the world. But that plea didn't go over well with President Trump.

After his split with President Trump, Elon Musk says he's forming a new political party, perhaps to compete for key congressional contests. It likely wouldn't be easy.

One hundred years ago, the small town of Dayton, Tenn., became the unlikely stage for one of the most sensational trials in American history, over the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution.

NPR speaks with Mac McCorkle, professor of public policy at Duke University, about Elon Musk's bid to launch a third party and how that might impact upcoming U.S. elections.

AAP and other leading health organizations allege that the health secretary violated federal law when he took the COVID vaccine off the list of recommended shots for pregnant women and healthy children.

A new study in the journal JAMA finds the health of America's children has worsened across several key indicators over the last two decades. That includes the number of children with chronic diseases.

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas well, plugged when she was a little girl, starting to leak again.