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Fire officials say crews have made significant progress fighting the Substation Fire burning near The Dalles, Oregon, which was at 92 percent containment by Sunday evening.

Songs of Disappearance is an collection of bird calls from 53 threatened Australian species. And for a brief spell, it was a best-selling album.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler was narrowly edged out of a spot in November's general election by Joe Kent, a Trump-backed opponent.

Speaking at the annual Munich Security Conference, Vice President Harris said Russian forces have been documented committing acts of murder, sexual assault, torture and deportation.

In the 1990s, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page figured out how to use the structure of the Internet — the way pages link to one another — to put the most relevant items at the top of a search list. Their discovery transformed their garage startup, Google, into the Internet's top search engine, a household name and even a verb. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Most Bay Area transit agencies say they will continue to operate on more or less normal schedules despite the “shelter in place” order health official have imposed on most of the region in an attempt to limit the spread of novel coronavirus. The major exceptions to that “more or less normal” rule: San Francisco Bay … Continue reading Pandemic Transit: What’s Running, What’s Not During Bay Area ‘Shelter in Place’ Order →

The 6% spike in hate crimes reported by the FBI for 2020 follows a recent upward trend in incidents. But some experts and advocacy groups say the true number is probably even higher.

As many as 6,000 people died in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. Patricia Bellis Bixel, who wrote about the storm and how the city was rebuilt, details the operation for Debbie Elliott.

The 22-year-old Spaniard's win against 38-year-old rival Novak Djokovic at Sunday's Australian Open makes him the youngest male player to win all four major tournaments.

The complaint comes less than a week after the Trump administration published a preliminary list of more than 6,000 Chinese products that it wants to hit with new tariffs.