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A Trump appointee who was a vocal advocate for "energy dominance" will now work with an oil company pitching a major project on Alaska's North Slope.

Trump erroneously insisted that Alabama was in the storm's path, and Wednesday he showed a weather service map clearly altered to include the state.

Cameron James Pettit was arrested Wednesday morning. He was charged by federal prosecutors with supplying counterfeit oxycodone to Mac Miller shortly before the rapper's death.

Wild combinations yield wild results. This week's playlist includes Los Pirañas' squiggly psych-cumbia, Jessica Pavone's stirring string drone and noisy Afghan jams.

The standards were set to go into effect in January and gradually phase out incandescent and halogen bulbs used for items such as bathroom vanities, recessed lighting and candle-shape lights.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Sarah Varney of Kaiser Health News about how U.S. companies are contributing to the burgeoning pain management market, and rising opioid addiction crisis in India.

The Petronio Alvarez festival is the big event of the summer — five days of music and food and fashion. More than 100,000 people travel to celebrate Afro-Colombian culture.

The Allegheny County Jail runs a full high school for juveniles charged as adults. "In this part of the building, you are a student," Principal Jay Moser tells students on the first day.

When a loan forgiveness program for public servants wasn't working, Congress created a temporary fix. A new report shows that the program didn't fix much.

NPR's Noel King talks to Robert Woodard, chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, about people in North Carolina's Outer Banks bracing for Hurricane Dorian.

After devastating the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian is making its way north. The eye of the giant storm is over the Atlantic Ocean, and it appears it is headed toward Georgia and the Carolinas.

Updated 12:10 p.m. ThursdayHurricane Dorian has begun moving slowly up the South Carolina coast. It’s passing close to Charleston this morning and then…

Mecklenburg County Manager Dena Diorio has recommended the Arts & Science Council be “re-envisioned” if voters approve a quarter-cent sales tax for the…

Evacuating away from a hurricane is difficult for elderly people who are ill, don't have access to transportation or live on a fixed income. Slow, rainy storms such as Dorian are particularly tough.

Architects from around the world have flooded social media with their visions of a new Notre Dame. But 55% of French respondents say they want the cathedral to be just as it was before, a poll finds.

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon will cut funding from military projects like schools, target ranges and maintenance facilities to pay for the construction of…

The Category 2 hurricane is just off the coast, and its heavy winds and rains are hammering the Southeast. "If you don't need to be out," South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says, "don't go out."

The lack of a border has contributed to a booming dairy business between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland – the types of dealings experts say helped make peace between the two a reality.

The California conference with the FBI, as well as U.S. intelligence and security officials, reflected a new consensus about the need to prepare against attacks aimed at the next election.

Groupon and other deal sites are the latest marketing tactic in medicine, offering bargain prices. But critics say pursuing such discounts can also entail getting unnecessary or duplicative services.