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Fans across the country tuned in to see the Artemis II crew make their splashy return to Earth. -
Cambodia is recognizing the life-saving contributions of a rat named Magawa with a statue. The late rat sniffed out landmines for a non-profit group, and in a short career helped find more than 100.
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The District of Columbia's Tidal Basin cherry blossoms attract a quarter million visitors annually but there are more cherry trees in a park in Newark, N.J.
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It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon. -
In her new book You've Been Pooping All Wrong, Dr. Trisha Pasricha shares habits and practices to make your relationship with your solid waste as smooth as possible -
India's satirists are turning Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a punch line — and the government is hitting back. -
The Orion crew module containing the four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean Friday evening. -
NPR visits the last detention camp for ISIS wives and children in an increasingly precarious northeastern Syria. -
Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs. -
With 35 candidates in the race, Peru is set to elect its 9th president in less than a decade. Amid rising corruption and crime, voters are left asking: Can this election finally break the cycle? -
A senior White House official said that an American delegation, led by Vice President JD Vance, was meeting with senior Iranian negotiators in Islamabad to discuss an end to the six-week long war. -
The four astronauts aboard NASA's Artemis II mission splashed down on Earth, after a successful visit to the moon.
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