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Hear here! Our list of the best podcasts by fourth graders

For the first time ever, NPR presents the fourth grade winners of the Student Podcast Challenge.

Vice President Harris is pictured during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday — her first in-depth, on-the-record conversation with a journalist since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

6 takeaways from Harris' interview on CNN

Vice President Harris gave her first interview since jumping into the presidential race just a little over a month ago. Here's what we learned.

A squat lobster in the genus Sternostylus, thought to be a newly identified species, was photographed along the Nazca Ridge off the coast of Chile.

A newly mapped underwater mountain could be home to 20 new species

Researchers who led the 28-day expedition along the nearly 2-mile tall seamount hope the discoveries made will inform future policies safeguarding the understudied, high-seas region.

Mosquitoes kill more people than any other creature in the world. So the key is — try not to get bitten.

Mosquito-borne illnesses are rising: Here's how to protect yourself

Mosquitos love heat. And as summers get warmer, mosquito-borne illnesses are rising, in the U.S., Europe, and South and Central America. Here are some tips to protect yourself.

Range fires blackened hundreds of thousands of acres in eastern Oregon in a matter of hours in July.

These Oregon ranchers say the losses from summer range fires will be huge

More than a million acres of rangeland have burned in Oregon this summer. At times the wildfires barely made headlines, but ranchers say the economic fallout will be huge.

This week's quiz is very demure, very _______. Can you fill in the blank?

This week, we have two middle-aged men who are not Tim Walz and JD Vance sniping at each other. Plus: drugs, Tolkien, sports and novelty beverages! Have fun.

How AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election

Donald Trump has repeatedly shared AI-generated content on social media in the latest example of how artificial intelligence is showing up in the 2024 election.

A voter entering a polling place in Mountain Brooks, Ala., on Super Tuesday on March 5, 2024. Alabama is one of several states where GOP officials are launching fresh efforts to purge their voter rolls of noncitizens, even though there's little evidence noncitizens vote in significant numbers.

The GOP is making false claims about noncitizens voting. It’s affecting real voters

As the election nears, false rhetoric about noncitizen voting is having a real impact as some GOP officials are scrutinizing voter rolls and questioning some voters’ registrations.

Zakia Khudadadi from the Paralympic Refugee Team, bottom, celebrates her bronze medal in Para Taekwondo during the Paralympic Games in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2024.

Taekwondo athlete Zakia Khudadadi wins the Paralympic refugee team its first medal

The Afghan para-athlete makes history for the refugee team that represents the 120 million people globally who have been displaced.

Wu-Tang Clan's RZA goes classical with ballet score

Rapper RZA, who helped launch the Wu-Tang Clan hip-hop group in the 1990s, tries his hand in classical music by composing for a ballet inspired by Greek musical scales during the pandemic.

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