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American Electric Power, an Ohio-based company, has agreed to a $4.6 billion settlement of a lawsuit over pollution controls at its power plants. The Justice Department says it's the biggest environmental enforcement settlement ever.

Children's author Roald Dahl would have turned 100 this week. To celebrate, the OED added 6 words and expressions from Dahl's writing. For example: golden ticket, Oompa Loompa and Scrumdiddlyumptious.

This was a big spring for mainstream game studios — but summer was looking dry even before the pandemic upended everything. So it's a great time to check out some independent games.

Mayor London Breed convened a task force earlier this year to look for better ways to stem the spike in methamphetamine-related deaths, ER visits and arrests.

Harbaugh joins the Giants 11 days after he was fired by the Baltimore Ravens. The Super Bowl champion is now tasked with turning around a beleaguered franchise.

The U.S. Census bureau announced the long-expected result on Monday.

More than 212,000 Californians filed for unemployment benefits last week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, bringing the running total since sheltering in place started in mid-March to over 4.6 million. That represents 26.9% of the total workforce of California that is eligible for the unemployment insurance program. Applications for temporary unemployment assistance in … Continue reading Unemployment Claims in California Reach 4.6 Million →

More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 160 others injured in a 6.4 magnitude earthquake that shook Indonesian tourist spot Lombok island and surrounding areas, officials say.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with National Security Agency head Gen. Paul Nakasone and FBI Director Christopher Wray at an international conference on Cybersecurity at New York's Fordham University.