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The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. has been hit with a $23.6 billion ruling from a lawsuit brought by a chain smoker's widow.

They include one man who told a family member he wanted to attend an event where he could shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on live television.

Three NPR correspondents look at how the Israel-Hamas war is reshaping the region, and what might come next.

A group of lawmakers and staff with the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures spent a year and a half studying the best school systems in the world. Here's what they learned.

Farmers face a number of challenges these days, from higher input costs to fewer available resources. The stress of it all can take a toll, not only on their livelihood, but on their mental well-being.

Hospitals rely on scores of generic drugs given by injection. But these workhorses are often in short supply. Cheap prices have led to factory closures that leave the supply chain vulnerable.

Twitter has permanently blocked the @realDonaldTrump account after President Trump posted messages that violated the company's rules.

"C” is for Chicora, Francisco de. Indian captive. Born in the early sixteenth century, the man Spaniards baptized as “Francisco” was a native of the present-day South Carolina coast.

During open enrollment for Obamacare, a record number of people signed up for private health insurance. Now the Biden administration has to pivot to helping people who are at risk of losing Medicaid.

Ampullariidae, common name the apple snails, is a family of large freshwater snails, aquatic gastropod mollusks with a gill and an operculum. This family is in the superfamily Ampullarioidea and is the type family of that superfamily. The Ampullariidae are unusual because they have both a gill and a lung, with the mantle cavity being divided in order to separate the two types of respiratory structures. This adaptation allows these snails to be amphibious.Pomacea bridgesii, common names the spike-topped apple snail or mystery snail, is a South American species of apple snail that is considered invasive. Federal law states that it is illegal for apple snails to be imported across state lines.