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After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox. Researchers eventually realized that with the end of smallpox vaccinations, any immunity to other pox viruses such as mpox went away. They say this helps to explain why there are historically high numbers of mpox cases in the world today.

Lyle and Erik Menendez appeared virtually in court as a judge decided next steps in their resentencing hearing, which is more uncertain now that the DA who recommended it has been voted out of office.

In Trump's first term, his administration proposed major funding cuts to housing, food and other public benefits. Congress did not pass them, but advocates worry this time could be different.

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the author of A Woman of Substance and dozens of other best-selling novels, has died. She was 91.

Israeli airstrikes shook Southern Beirut Monday and Hezbollah has continued to fire hundreds of rockets into Israel. Amid this violence, there are some signals of a diplomatic deal in the works.

Some six years after a devastating fire, work is nearing completion at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Almost every part of the cathedral has undergone restoration and rebuilding.

Infant deaths are unimaginably difficult for families. A Utah seamstress eases the burden by sewing burial clothes — often difficult to find — sourced from donated wedding dresses.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, who's finding her way around Washington as an incoming freshman House Democrat.

American religious institutions are facing a crisis: they don't have enough clergy to lead congregations, particularly in rural areas.

The United Nations' annual climate conference, COP 29, has wrapped. The goal was to raise money from to help developing nations cut climate pollution and prepare for future threats.