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NASA's Perseverance rover took this photo next to a rock where it drilled for samples. NASA wants to bring samples collected by this rover back to Earth.

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  • Space

NASA hedges its bets on costly Mars rock mission

NASA has announced it is moving forward with several plans to return rock samples from Mars.

January 08, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
Then-Vice President Mike Pence reads the final certification of Electoral College votes after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot in 2021. A new law clarifies that the vice president's role in the counting of electoral votes is ministerial. Congress will count the votes from the 2024 presidential election on Monday.

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  • Elections

Jan. 6 is set to be different this year — in a big way and more subtle ways too

In response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot four years ago, Congress passed new rules to govern the presidential certification process. Those rules will be in effect Monday.

January 07, 2025
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  • Miles Parks
Author Zora Neale Hurston sits for a portrait.

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  • Books

How Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her death. The novel expands on her interest in the ancient king of Judea.

January 07, 2025
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  • Adriana Gallardo
Admiral Rachel L. Levine, a pediatrician by training, has been leading the Public Health Service during the Biden administration. She's pictured in a conference room at HHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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  • Health

Dr. Rachel Levine focused on her job at HHS. Still, anti-trans politics followed her

Dr. Rachel Levine is the highest ranking, out transgender person ever to serve in the federal government. Her tenure at HHS ran concurrent with an explosion in state legislation targeting transgender people.

January 06, 2025
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  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Many Americans keep their holidays decorations up into the new year.

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  • Arts & Life

Wondering when to take down holiday decorations? Here's some advice

Tradition and fire safety are things to consider as you ponder — or put off — taking down your holiday decorations.

January 06, 2025
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  • Obed Manuel
A jury found CNN defamed security contractor Zachary Young in a November 2021 report, shown above, about Afghans' fears of exorbitant charges from people offering to get them out of the country after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan.

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  • Media

CNN goes on trial over its report alleging 'black market' for Afghan rescues

A CNN story about a "black market" for rescuing people from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover is at the heart of a defamation trial that opens Monday in Florida.

January 06, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
The FBI released this image with a size chart showing the height of the alleged pipe bomber — 5 foot 7 inches.

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  • Law

Still on the hunt, the FBI shares new details about pipe bombs placed ahead of Jan. 6

Officials are still trying to identify the person who placed bombs outside of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee offices in 2021. Now they have fresh details.

January 04, 2025
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  • Carrie Johnson
Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston on June 23, 2020.

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  • Health

The U.S. surgeon general wants cancer warnings on alcohol. Here's why

Drinking alcohol raises the risk of developing seven types of cancer, according to a new advisory from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.

January 03, 2025
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  • Milton Guevara and
  • Steve Inskeep
Marsupial mole eating a gecko, Tanami Desert Northern Territory Australia

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  • Science

DNA reveals secrets of Australia's elusive marsupial mole

Researchers have probed the genetics of one of Australia's most elusory animals, the marsupial mole.

January 03, 2025
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  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A street in Oakland, Calif., viewed through AI-enhanced cameras from the start-up Hayden AI. Transit agencies across the U.S. are deploying the company's systems to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars.

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  • National

Transit systems turn to AI-powered cameras to catch drivers who block bus lanes

The nation's biggest transit systems are using AI-enhanced cameras to keep bus lanes clear of illegally parked cars. That's making buses move faster, but the rollout has hit a few speed bumps.

January 02, 2025
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  • Joel Rose
SZA accepts a Grammy Award for best R&B song for "Snooze" on February 4, 2024. At that point, the album on which "Snooze" appears, <em>SOS</em>, was already 14 months old. This week, nearly 11 months after the Grammys, <em>SOS</em> has returned to the top of the <em>Billboard</em> album chart thanks to the release of a deluxe version.

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  • Music

After nearly two years, SZA's 'SOS' rockets back to the top of the album chart

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

January 02, 2025
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  • Stephen Thompson
TikTok creators are preparing for the app to potentially be shut down in the U.S. this month unless it's sold to a non-Chinese company.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's how TikTok creators are preparing for a TikTok ban

TikTok will be shut down in the U.S. this month unless it's sold to a non-Chinese company. Here's how creators are preparing.

January 01, 2025
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  • Claire Murashima
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director General, delivers his speech after inaugurating the WHO Academy campus which promotes lifelong learning across the health sector, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, in Lyon, central France.

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  • Middle East

WHO director urges Israel to stop attacks on Gaza's medical infrastructure

World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who escaped an Israeli airstrike in Yemen, says Gaza's health crisis is indescribable and is calling for a ceasefire.

December 31, 2024
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  • Leila Fadel and
  • Destinee Adams
President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with his wife Rosalynn and their daughter Amy along Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the White House following his inauguration, Jan. 20, 1977, in Washington.

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  • Author Interviews

Jimmy Carter was 'a very unusual kind of politician,' biographer says

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.

December 30, 2024
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep and
  • Destinee Adams
Turkeys at a farm as California declares state of emergency to prevent new public health crisis on Bird flu in Pescadero, California, in December.

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  • Science

Bird flu Q&A: What to know to help protect yourself and your pets

Each week some revelation about bird flu seems to flutter through the news cycle. Here's what the latest research is saying about how it is spreading and how to keep yourself and your pets safe.

December 30, 2024
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  • Will Stone
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