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Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.

California once played the role of a baseball team's ninth-inning pitcher, nailing down a win. Now it's more like a reserve player waiting on the bench in case of extra innings (which never happen).

For Nancy Pearl, beach reading doesn't mean light reading. NPR's go-to librarian has dug up a diverse mix of titles old and new — a selection of mystery, memoir and more.

Author Salman Rushdie has a new book out. Shalimar the Clown is set in Kashmir, the volatile region bordering India and Pakistan that was recently devastated by an earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people.

One lawmaker called the changes a ‘critical correction to an agency that veered far off course.’

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois about the lengthy government shutdown and the nomination of William Barr to be attorney general.

A military lawyer has filed a federal whistleblower complaint alleging "gross mismanagement" and "gross waste of funds" at Guantánamo Bay's military court. He spoke exclusively with NPR.

Ten months after U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell thought he'd die as Capitol rioters pummeled him, he's still working to recover his mental and physical health.

Many state legislative sessions were cut short because of the coronavirus pandemic. Now lawmakers, itching to complete state business, are reconvening despite health warnings.

How do you talk to your kids about climate change?