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Although "dog" is ubiquitous today to describe man's best friend, it remains a mystery where the word originally came from.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Dr. Catherine Crosland, who works directly with people experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C., following President Trump's law enforcement actions in the capital.

Latino voters helped deliver the White House to President Trump in the last election. Many of them already say they won't vote for Republicans next year, but they aren't yet turning to Democrats.

Trump announced the Kennedy Center Honorees on Wednesday. They are Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, Kiss, George Strait and Michael Crawford.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Trump national security adviser John Bolton about the president's upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author David Levithan and singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, creators of the new novel and album Songs for Other People's Weddings.

Perspectives on crime in Washington, D.C., differ depending on where you are. Overall, though, residents seem to think President Trump's approach isn't the right one.

AOL debuted the service in 1989. Dial-up has largely been replaced by broadband internet.

Desperate Palestinians are risking gunfire, looting or being crushed by moving trucks to get flour in northern Gaza.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.