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Podcast host Ed Helms has published many more of historical blunders in the book "Snafu: The Definitive Guide to History's Greatest Screwups."

The United States imports oil products from India's Reliance Industries refinery, which sources nearly half its oil from Russia.

The Trump administration is using decades-old laws, meant to prevent discrimination, to threaten school districts and states with cuts to vital federal funding.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Dr. Daniel Jernigan, the former director of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, about his resignation after the CDC director's firing.

Tensions are escalating between the U.S. and India as the Trump administration imposes tariffs and tries to force India to stop buying Russian oil.

The bookie at the center of a gambling scandal involving the former interpreter of baseball star Shohei Ohtani is to be sentenced. Matt Bowyer is breaking his silence and speaking freely.

President Trump has been focusing on some of the lesser-known conflicts in the world as peace remains elusive for Ukraine and Gaza.

Fifty years ago, Robert F. Kennedy was killed in California. Just two months earlier, he gave an impromptu speech in Indianapolis on the night Martin Luther King Jr. was killed.

The White House has cancelled a visit by the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles.

Are some people getting too much treatment for their cancers? The answer, from the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, is an emphatic yes.

Reactions have been mixed since President Trump floated the idea of pardon for former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who's serving 14-year prison sentence for corruption. But some Democrats are siding with Trump, including Sen. Dick Durbin and former attorney general Eric Holder.

Sen. Joe Donnelly is a Democrat running for reelection in a state that went for Trump in 2016 — Indiana. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Sen. Donnelly about his message headed into the fall elections.

As he prepares to meet North Korea's leader, President Trump has held out the prospects of working on a peace treaty to end the Korean war. What would that mean for the U.S.-South Korea alliance and troops' presence on the peninsula?

When it comes to American Revolutionary War history, we messed up and should be tarred and feathered. NPR's Robert Siegel and Kelly McEvers correct a mistake we should have caught on Friday's program: when the Revolutionary War actually ended.

In 2000 the world's leaders agreed on an ambitious plan for attacking global poverty by 2015. Called the Millennium Development Goals, these time-bound targets spurred an unprecedented aid effort that helped slash the share of people living in extreme poverty in half. Now nations are hammering out an even broader set of goals for 2030, but this time the task is proving highly controversial. The Millennium Development Goals were drafted in a highly casual way and that simple process proved the key to their success.

Burt Shavitz, the eccentric co-founder of Burt's Bees skin care products, has died at age 80. His bearded face is on your lip balm.

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with James Neff about his new book Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy versus Jimmy Hoffa.

The three major U.S. airlines — American, United and Delta — are pressuring the government to stifle competition by carriers from the Persian Gulf.

Lee's new film centers on a music mogul who faces a moral dilemma when kidnappers mistakenly hold his friend's son ransom instead of his own: Will he risk it all to save a child who isn't his?

As the federal government challenges years of established science on vaccine safety, Colorado passed a new law letting its health officials consult other experts instead of relying on CDC guidance.