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A home available for sale is shown in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 16, 2023. Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers argues the consumer price index may understate the pain of rising interest rates, such as higher mortgages.

Here's a big reason why people may be gloomy about the economy: the cost of money

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers argues that high interest rates are contributing to people's gloomy economic mood. Sentiment may improve, though, if the Federal Reserve begins to cut rates.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants two suspected terrorists to be imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay instead of in his home state of Kentucky.

McConnell will step down as the Senate Republican leader in November after a record run in the job

The 82-year-old Kentucky lawmaker is the longest-serving Senate leader in history.

Psilocybin mushrooms stand ready for harvest in a humidified "fruiting chamber."

In Oregon, psilocybin treatment is an experiment in real time

In Oregon, some are seeking out psilocybin for relief from mental health issues. But tracking the effects of that treatment is very much a work in progress.

Dorothea Lange, Human Erosion in California (Migrant Mother), March 1936, gelatin silver print

In today's global migrant crisis, echoes of Dorothea Lange's American photos

Nearly 100 years ago, Lange chronicled the destitution and desperation of The Great Depression. An exhibition of her work at the National Gallery of Art speaks to the present day migrant crisis.

Kenneth Mayfield was in the Black Student Union at the University of Mississippi in 1970. Members of the group were jailed after protesting token integration on the Ole Miss campus. Mayfield, now an attorney in Tupelo, Miss., was also one of eight students expelled.

A half-century later, students at the University of Mississippi reckon with the past

University of Mississippi students meet members of the school's Black Student Union from 1970. They were jailed and expelled from Ole Miss for protesting token integration.

Republican Arizona Senate candidate Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Feb. 24. Lake has softened her stance on abortion as the campaign season moves forward.

In Arizona, abortion politics are already playing out on the Senate campaign trail

Abortion proved to be a major issue in the 2022 midterms and again in 2023. This year, the presidential race puts extra attention on the ballot. In Arizona, that means the issue is front and center.

A Democratic voter uncommitted to President Biden rallies outside of a polling location at Maples Elementary School on Feb. 27 in Dearborn, Mich.

The push to vote 'uncommitted' to Biden in Michigan exceeds goal

The group Listen to Michigan was urging voters in the state to vote uncommitted on the Democratic ballot as a protest vote against President Biden's handling of Israel's war in Gaza.

Senator Tammy Duckworth says she has been trying to build bipartisan support for IVF access for years.

After Alabama's ruling, this senator's bill aims to protect national access to IVF

Senator Tammy Duckworth has introduced a bill to protect access to IVF. She tells NPR about her own experience with fertility treatments and her attempts to build bipartisan support for her bill.

A 7-month-old child with diarrhea lies in a bed at a hospital in India. Oral rehydration salts are a cheap and effective treatment but are underused. A new study aims to find out why.

There's a cheap and effective way to treat childhood diarrhea. So why is it underused?

A new study seeks to find the reasons that health-care personnel avoid the easy treatment for this potentially life-threatening condition.

The idea that sentences can end with a preposition has become a point of contention in the replies to a tongue-in-cheek social media post from dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster.

Merriam-Webster says you can end a sentence with a preposition. The internet goes off

The dictionary publisher's guidance on the practice has people riled up. Grammarians say the made-up rule is one big waste of time. Not everyone is ready to let it go.

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