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It’s getting a lot of attention because of its unexpected angles and straight lines. A sea ice specialist explains why it formed this way.

President Trump has been keeping fact-checkers busy with his campaign claims of Middle Eastern migrants and a 10 percent middle-class tax cut.

Eight of the top ten states with the highest suicide rates are in the Mountain West. Grand Junction, Colo. has launched an ambitious effort starting in the schools to try and address the problem.

The national security adviser said the U.S. will leave the INF Treaty “in due course” — and that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to speak directly again next month.

Ari Berman of Mother Jones warns that a Republican strategy to tighten access to the ballot box could have a major impact on the 2018 elections. “It could be tainted by voter suppression,” he says.

The jury had awarded $250 million in punitive damages and $39.25 million in compensatory damages to a groundskeeper who contracted cancer after spraying a powerful version of the weedkiller Roundup.

The 54-year-old got more than a dozen years after confessing to poisoning baby food with an antifreeze ingredient, putting the jars on store shelves and then trying to extort money from supermarkets.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has announced this latest killing of one of their employees in the unsettled northeast of Nigeria.

O’Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, says she has been diagnosed with “the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease.”

Turkey’s leader rejected Saudi Arabia’s claim that the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an accident. He said 18 suspects under arrest in Saudi Arabia should face justice in Turkey.

Court documents, intelligence reports and other official accounts have now created the most comprehensive picture yet of one key aspect of the “active measures” targeting the West.

Uber has helped create about 800 “virtual restaurants” in the U.S. — eateries that only exist online. Uber says its delivery service helps restaurants grow, but some in the industry see downsides.

Democratic candidate for governor Andrew Gillum has been polling just ahead of Republican Rep. Ron DeSantis in Florida. While DeSantis has full Trump support, Gillum draws progressive enthusiasm.

The device was safely detonated by a bomb squad. The case has been handed over to the Joint Terrorism Task Force Division of the FBI.

The Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to temporarily shield Wilbur Ross from facing questioning under oath in challenges to the 2020 census citizenship question.

Donald Trump once accused Ted Cruz’s father essentially of being linked to the assassination of John F. Kennedy. On Monday, he flew to the Texas senator’s hometown and gave him his full endorsement.

The print, called Edmond de Belamy, is a blurry depiction of what could be a “a man of the church” floating within a gilt frame. In place of the artist’s signature is a math equation.

The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty marked the end of the Cold War. The Kremlin may want to leave the agreement, too.

A very small study shows that microplastics are in human waste in many parts of the world. While it’s not entirely clear what that means for our health, it might be a sign that we need to pull back.

A sea cucumber that looks like a headless chicken has been caught on video in the deep seas near East Antarctica, thousands of miles from where one of the species was last spotted.

Drivers on what’s being called the world’s longest sea bridge will have the experience of seeming to plunge underwater in two spots, where artificial islands house openings for a four-mile tunnel.

Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Smiley was shot twice, according to the Pentagon, during an attack in Kandahar that killed the province’s chiefs of police and intelligence and wounded the governor.

“The agency’s proposed definition would define sex as either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with,” The New York Times reported. Reaction was swift.

In the midst of campaigning against each other for a seat in Vermont’s House of Representatives, Democrat Lucy Rogers and Republican Zac Mayo ended a recent debate with a striking collaboration.

Thousands of mostly Central American migrants have crossed into Mexico with hopes of reaching the U.S. But Trump doesn’t like it, and he’s threatening to punish the countries they come from.

A Turkish ruling party official described the newly released surveillance footage as evidence of a Saudi cover-up. Saudi Arabia has confirmed that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died.

Roenneberg was just 23 when his team of resistance fighters parachuted into a mountain range in Norway. They skied to a plant making heavy water and blew Hitler’s atomic plans off-schedule.

The country’s rising cocaine production has alarmed Washington, which has spent more than $10 billion over nearly two decades to attack the illegal drug trade in Colombia.

The Justice and Interior Departments are expanding a program that connects tribal law enforcement with national crime databases. The initiative has helped solve crimes and register sex offenders.

Two large studies show that age-related memory loss can be slowed significantly when older people promptly address hearing and vision loss.

Most people who struggle with depression and anxiety have heard that exercise is a mood-booster. But exercising with friends, especially playing a team sport may help even more.

It is the first national apology on behalf of the federal government since a major report published last year showed the problem was rampant in Australia’s Catholic Church and other institutions.

The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, is expected to make landfall on the southwestern coast of Mexico sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday.

NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with Don Palmerine, who witnessed a rape as a teenager. After keeping silent for 50 years, he wrote about it in The Washington Post.