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Dr. Nancy Messonnier had served as the agency's top respiratory disease official since 2016. Then-President Donald Trump reportedly threatened to fire her after her comments in February 2020.

Conventional wisdom is that income inequality has gotten worse in the years since the financial crisis, but new research by a George Washington University professor says that's not what the data show.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, tells CNN that young children should be able to go trick-or-treating outdoors for Halloween this year.

Students began protesting outside the university center nearly two weeks ago, citing moldy dorm rooms and other problems. They say they won't leave until their demands are met.

The Vacancies Act says many temporary government appointees cannot remain in their posts after the 300th day of a president's first year in office.

The new season of Stranger Things is out and has reignited the hit Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush. The song has risen to the top of the streaming charts since being featured in the first episode.

Jack Bishop of the PBS television show, America's Test Kitchen, explains to NPR's A Martínez how to cook a plant-based burger.

A #MeToo moment may be growing in a country where top movie directors have signed a petition expressing outrage over allegations of sexual violence in the film industry.

For the first time, President Trump is spending more on staff than Barack Obama did during his final year as president.

Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, President Bush's choice for top U.S. military commander in Iraq, meets with the Senate Armed Services Committee. But Tuesday's confirmation hearing mostly gave senators a chance to voice their own opinions on the conflict.

A comedian offers his "Mobituary" for the Iowa caucuses, which, after this week, may have hammered the nails in their own coffins.

It was the first win in nearly three decades for a standard poodle at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — though plenty of fans hoped Daniel would break the long drought for golden retrievers.

A top Senate panel wants documents from Blue Star Strategies, a public relations firm with ties to Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company whose board Hunter Biden once served on.

Republicans seem at odds over whether President Obama introduced a big new tax through his health care law. Some conservatives are making a campaign issue of the Supreme Court ruling and its rationale. But a top aide says Mitt Romney — who signed a similar law in Massachusetts — doesn't see it as a tax.

British artist Dominic Wilcox has designed a pair of shoes called "No Place Like Home," inspired by Dorothy's red slippers in The Wizard of Oz. The shoes are equipped with GPS and tell the wearer how to get to his or her destination with a click of the heel. Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel have more.

Small private school students ordered 70 percent more food than others between midnight and 2 a.m. That could be because they tend to have more money and fewer on-campus dining options during those hours.

It's still unclear whether Sandy, which was both downgraded then upgraded early Saturday morning, will be a devastating storm or just a bad one. It is clear, however, that Sandy will be remembered as the storm that broke all the rules and baffled the nation's top weather forecasters.

The report challenged a Republican tenet, finding little evidence that lowering taxes on the very wealthy actually spurred economic growth.

http://66.225.205.104/SG20100524.mp3Seventy-one years ago, baseball inducted its first ever Hall of Fame class. Yesterday in uptown Charlotte, NASCAR held…

It's not often that a book can cover World War I in less than 200 pages, but critic Jonathan Hunt says Russell Freedman has succeeded admirably. Amid the epic sweep of world events, Freedman never loses sight of the smaller moments of human drama.