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Over 12 million cases of dengue fever were reported in 2024, the most ever. A study suggests climate change has likely played a significant role in the disease's expansion.

President-elect Trump plans to nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury Secretary. He's been on of Trump's biggest cheerleaders in the financial world.

The seven states that share the Colorado River have a 2026 deadline for a new sharing agreement. The Biden administration this week encouraged them to hurry, in an apparent attempt to limit the incoming Trump administration's influence.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Michele Steele of ESPN about the NWSL championship, Geno Auriemma's record-breaking night and a now-rare event in the NFL: playing in the snow.

Janet Martin, aka the Mayor of Armitage Brown Line Station, is retiring from the Chicago Transit Authority after a 29-year career marked with kindness.

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long standoff with police in the darkness of a disused gold mine.

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked the city of Dnipro with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war.

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are key to public health.

The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, mostly in the Seattle area, before moving through Northern California.

President-elect Trump nominated Bessent, a former protégé of George Soros to be his next treasury secretary.