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Hundreds of swimmers in Chicago joined the first open-water event on the Chicago River in a century, celebrating the city's progress in restoring a waterway once considered a toxic wasteland.

President Trump is urging Hamas to accept the terms of a new hostage release plan, issuing what he calls a "last warning."

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul says the only "chaos" on Chicago's streets is coming from federal immigration agents carrying our aggressive enforcement.

The Israeli military says an order for nearly a million people to march south is "inevitable" -- and the assault has already begun.

America's foremost farmer-philosopher, Wendell Berry, is the subject of a new documentary. It celebrates the writer's work, and the rural community in Kentucky in which he's rooted.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the Financial Times reporter Valerie Hopkins about the political crisis in Austria and the fate of the far right there.

Several actors who survived the Russian bombing of a theater in Mariupol are now in Ukraine's far west. They went back on stage over the weekend for the first time since the war began.

Astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken talk to NPR's Steve Inskeep from the International Space Station. They were the first to be launched into space on a private spaceflight company mission.

Hurricane Beryl is an unusually strong storm for this time of year and it gained strength unusually fast. That's in part because of record high ocean temperatures driven by climate change.

Those chills up and down your spine could mean more than just the thrill. An anthropologist tells us what these scary stories reveal. Click — if you dare — for tales of terror.