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The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates after seven years of record lows. It's signaling that further rate hikes will likely be made slowly.

Talks have been held under the Lima-Paris Action Agreement aimed at galvanizing action on climate. One of the areas where there's been progress has been on reducing deforestation.

The Chicago police force is under intense scrutiny. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Reverend Jesse Jackson about the policing situation in Chicago and what action he'd like to see taken.

On Sunday, French voters elect regional leaders around the country, and the far right, anti-immigrant National Front could find itself for the first time ever taking the top spot in one or more regions.

A man in Turkey is on trial for creating a meme that compares the character Gollum to Turkey's president. Michael Drough, a Lord of the Rings scholar, talks about whether Gollum is a true villain.

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A flood in India's fourth-largest city has claimed at least 280 people so far. During a brief lull in weeks of heavy rains, the Indian government boosts its rescue missions to help stranded residents.

The best photos from the New Horizons spacecraft that buzzed Pluto earlier this year are now making their way back to Earth, providing resolutions of less than 100 yards per pixel.

Syracuse University football fans can hope that the new orange coach will have the same success as he had in his previous stop. Dino Babers was named as…

He says the documentary, about a boy who had three fingers hacked off for their purported magic power, is farfetched. People with albinism don't agree.