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Gas prices are displayed at a Mobil gas station in Los Angeles on Oct. 28, 2022. ExxonMobil posted record earnings in 2022, benefitting from a surge in oil prices.

Exxon announced record earnings. It's bound to renew scrutiny of Big Oil

Exxon earned nearly $56 billion in profit last year, the biggest annual profit any Western oil company has ever seen. Chevron set its own record with $35 billion in profit.

Ashley Close, staff attorney at Children's Law Center, right, checks in with Dr. Ankita Khandai, center, and Dr. Candice Dawes, left, at Children's National's Anacostia clinic in Washington, D.C. Close works with doctors to help them fight for healthy living conditions for patients. Medical-legal partnerships like this are spreading nationwide.

When landlords won't fix asthma triggers like mold, doctors call in the lawyers

Mold, pests and rodents in the home can lead to life-threatening asthma attacks in kids. Increasingly, doctors see this as a medical issue that requires legal intervention.

A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gatherer societies.

Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

Voyager's Daniel Estrin rehearses "Promise" for the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest.

Rooting for a Eurovision singer of the same name

NPR's Daniel Estrin speaks with Daniel Estrin, lead singer of the band representing Australia at the Eurovision Song Contest, and Daniel Estrin, lead guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Hoobastank.

Haruo Nakajima is the suit actor who first brought Godzilla to life in the 1954 film, "Gojira."

Midday Movies: Critics pick films to be thankful for

With Thanksgiving around the corner, you may have some extra time on your hands. And what better way to spend it than watching a movie with family.

Brian Wallach and Sandra Abrevaya at their home in suburban Chicago.

He was diagnosed with ALS. Then they changed the face of medical advocacy

After Brian Wallach was diagnosed with ALS, he and his wife Sandra Abrevaya threw themselves into advocating for patients. Everyone up to President Biden took notice.

Godzilla attacks the Golden Gate Bridge in <em>Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.</em>

Why does Apple TV+ have so many of the best streaming shows you've never heard of?

People may grumble about Apple's higher monthly fee, but there are a lot of original series packed in their lineup that many viewers haven't yet considered.

Patricia Mendoza looks towards her dog Chula while cooking breakfast for her children at her Imperial Beach home, March 23, 2021.

Thousands in San Diego promised rent relief now face eviction

The county's COVID-19 rental assistance program continued to approve requests for April to June, without knowing if funds would be available.

Poetry finally has its own Grammy category – mostly thanks to J. Ivy, nominee

Poet J. Ivy is a nominee for the Grammys' Best Spoken Word Poetry Album award — a new category he helped create, after petitioning the Recording Academy.

Rev. Russell Levenson, Jr. of St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston with former first lady Barbara Bush and former President George. H.W. Bush after a morning worship service. Levenson details his friendship with the Bushes and what he learned from them and how they lived their faith in his new book <em>Witness to Dignity: The Life and Faith of George H.W. and Barbara Bush.</em>

How faith guided former President George H.W. Bush, according to his pastor

Rev. Russell Levenson, Jr. got to know former President George H.W. Bush and his wife over more than a decade. He said how they lived their faith can serve as a roadmap for anyone, religious or not.

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