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An illustration of the Mars Curiosity rover. President Trump says he wants astronauts on Mars. What will that take … and will the White House’s proposed…

Syrian government security forces block Bedouin fighters, background, from entering Sweida province, in Busra al-Harir village, southern Syria on Sunday. Omar Sanadiki/AP hide caption toggle caption…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. sits speaks on the telephone after encountering a white mob protesting against the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, Alabama, May 26, 1961.…

Adham Aljamous, 32, and his father Nouruldeen, 72, on their rooftop in Gaziantep, Turkey. They fled Syria over a decade ago. Now, with a chance to…

President Trump, accompanied by Tulsi Gabbard, speaks after Gabbard is sworn in as director of national intelligence on February 12. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle…

Firefighters work at the site of a Bangladesh Air Force training aircraft that crashed into a school campus shortly after takeoff in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Monday. Mahmud…

NPR’s Steve Inskeep talks with Politico’s Jonathan Martin about Congress ceding the “power of the purse” over to President Trump. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Next, we follow…

People and traffic pass the fence of the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis which was hit in an Israeli strike at dawn that targeted the southern…

Angela Hsieh for NPR Did you know that the ocean produces approximately half of the world’s oxygen? Or that key medicines have come from ocean discoveries,…

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