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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Amy Nordrum of the MIT Technology Review about the magazine's list of breakthrough technologies for 2025.

Alcohol use is a leading preventable cause of cancer, according to an advisory from the Surgeon General. Studies show a link to at least 7 types of cancer. The more people drink, the higher the risk.

In 2018, an orca in Washington dubbed J35 by scientists made global headlines when she carried her dead baby on her nose for 17 days. The same orca has just lost another calf.

Federal officials are trying to figure out the motive behind a Colorado man's decision to drive a rented Tesla Cybertruck to Las Vegas and detonate it in front of a Trump hotel on New Year's Day.

South Korea's political crisis began a month ago with the brief declaration of martial law. It's a recent example of power grabs in established democracies that holds lessons for other nations.

The beloved blue locomotive was first imagined in the 1940s — he starred in stories Rev. Wilbert Awdry told his son. Allcroft adapted Awdry's The Railway Series into Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends.

President Biden's judicial picks have included the first Black woman to the U.S. Supreme Court, women of color to federal appeals courts and openly LGBTQ judges to serve on the federal bench.

El ex supervisor Ken Fletcher todavía estaba en la boleta en noviembre, pero no aceptó el cargo después de ser reelegido.

In a special edition of the It’s Just Politics newsletter, Zoe Clark and Rick Pluta take a look at five political stories that will make headlines in Michigan in 2025. From a new divided legislature to fights over who will lead the Republican and Democratic parties in Michigan, the It’s Just Politics team breaks it all down.

Former Delta Township Supervisor Ken Fletcher was still on the ballot in November, but did not accept the position after being reelected.