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West Nile virus has arrived in California, and experts are carefully monitoring its spread through measures such as placing sentinel animals, like chickens, near mosquito breeding grounds. As NPR's John Nielsen reports, health officials hope to stall the disease and spare the state costly public health measures.

A Capitol Police officer who suffered a concussion after rioters knocked her to the ground on Jan. 6, 2021 is one of the people expected to speak at the hearing.

Every morning for more than a week, hundreds of balloons will lift off the ground at once in an unrivaled kaleidoscope of color.

With Israel’s counter-offensive against Hamas in its second week, a ground invasion is anticipated as a humanitarian crisis in Gaza worsens.

Manuel came to the U.S. illegally two decades ago, one of 143,470 such people who were arrested in the country's interior last year. Most are ordered to leave. For six months, Manuel awaited his fate.

The beauty of these main-course pies is that all you need to go alongside them is a hearty salad.

Big questions remain about what this will actually mean on the ground in a country torn apart by five years of war.

The health agency is making changes so it can get boots on the ground if a pandemic strikes. But critics say it hasn't gone far enough.

When I’m out in the woods in winter, I tend to keep my eyes on the ground. I’m looking for tracks, scat - signs of warm-blooded life. About the last...

They don't have wings, but bacteria sure can fly. Researchers at MIT say that tiny bubbles trapped by raindrops play a part in launching bacteria on long-distance flights.