Scientists have placed two seismometers 8000 feet below the ice cap at the South Pole to measure earthquakes and support tsunami alerts.

On day two of the Olympic Winter Games, downhill skier Breezy Johnson captured the first gold for Team USA. And alpine racer Lindsay Vonn crashed and was transported to the hospital with a broken leg.

More than a week after one of the worst train accidents in Spain's history, many questions remain unanswered, and survivors struggle to move on.

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Washington Post chief executive and publisher Will Lewis has resigned just days after the newspaper announced massive layoffs.

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Amid an ongoing standoff between Harvard and the White House, the Defense Department said it plans to cut ties with the Ivy ...

Meg Anderson, who has been reporting on the Trump administration's immigration campaign in Minneapolis, talks about what it is like to cover a national event in her home town.

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Icelandic director Hlynur Pálmason weaves scenes of quiet domestic life against the backdrop of an arresting landscape in his ...

The German practice of lüften, airing out your house, is becoming popular in the U.S. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Annette Baran from the Goethe Institute, and her husband Robert, about embracing ...

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