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Rio 2016 organizers drop the curtain on the Summer Games, after hosting the world's elite athletes who've competed for 306 medals over the past 19 days.

An NPR survey of trans and gender-nonconforming teachers found that, despite the challenges they face, a majority of these educators try to integrate LGBT topics into their classes.

The German automaker has been rocked by a scandal following its acknowledgment that it rigged diesel emissions tests on some 11 million vehicles worldwide.

By 2017, all new mobile phones will have to be able to send out a distress call. It is part of an initiative to centralize India's emergency response system — and to address violence against women.

Using excerpts from letters and diaries, historian and critic Bill Goldstein follows writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot through the tumultuous literary year of 1922.

Hillary Clinton was pressed on her private email server and use of classified information; Trump insisted he was ready to lead the military and defended a tweet arguing against mixed-gender units.

Amid two invigorating new songs and three fresh renditions of Yo La Tengo classics, nine wide-ranging covers are performed with varying degrees of sweetness, sadness, silliness and joy.

Researchers analyzing recent drug spending in the U.S. say that high-priced drugs for rare diseases aren't having a widespread or significant effect on overall health care spending.

Researchers analyzing recent drug spending in the U.S. say that high-priced drugs for rare diseases aren't having a widespread or significant effect on overall health care spending.

Reinhold Hanning, a former death camp guard, told victims in the courtroom, "I am sorry." He said he has been silent all his life about his role as part of the Nazi killing machine from 1942 to 1944.