- — No relief: Inflation unexpectedly heated up last month
- Inflation remained stubbornly high in January, as grocery, gasoline and shelter costs all rose. Egg prices saw their biggest price hike in almost a decade.(Image credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
- — His genes forecast Alzheimer's. His brain had other plans.
- Doug Whitney was supposed to develop Alzheimer's by 50. Now scientists are trying to understand why his brain remains healthy at 75.(Image credit: Megan Farmer, WashU Medicine)
- — What happens if Trump starts ignoring court rulings? We break it down
- A court finding that the Trump administration did not comply with an earlier order and a recent statement by Vice President JD Vance have some experts warning of a potential constitutional crisis.(Image credit: Al Drago)
- — Trump's Gaza proposal has rattled the Middle East. More surprises are likely
- President Trump has already shaken up the Middle East by suggesting a U.S. takeover of Gaza. More drama could be on the way when the president spells out plans for other parts of the volatile region.(Image credit: Andrew Harnik)
- — GSA staff faces massive cuts. And, could NASA launch a Mars mission?
- The General Services Administration plans to cut its budget in half and ramp up monitoring of staff. And, Elon Musk could help propel a NASA Mars program — or delay it for another generation.(Image credit: Saul Loeb)
- — Republicans split on best path to advance Trump's agenda in Congress
- Republicans may control both chambers of Congress but leaders in the House and Senate have very different ideas about the best way to implement President Trump's agenda.(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)
- — Trump funding freeze could leave communities on their own as climate threats grow
- Without federal support, American communities will struggle to deal with a challenge as pervasive as climate change, market analysts and environmental advocates say.(Image credit: Al Drago/Getty Images)
- — Trump official targeting Jan. 6 investigators worked on those cases himself
- The disconnect between Bove's aggressive stance at the time to hold rioters accountable — and his current hostility towards the Jan. 6 probe — has troubled some former colleagues.(Image credit: Jeenah Moon-Pool)
- — When her young son was hit by a pickup truck, a stranger rushed to help
- Melissa Barbanell's 7-year-old son was severely injured after being hit by a pickup truck. A stranger, who turned out to be a nurse, let Barbanell know he was going to be OK.(Image credit: Melissa Barbanell)
- — When her young son was hit by a pickup truck, a stranger ran over to help
- Melissa Barbanell's 7-year-old son was severely injured after being hit by a pickup truck. A stranger, who turned out to be a nurse, let Barbanell know he was going to be OK.(Image credit: Melissa Barbanell)
- — She wanted to be a mom. So she chose a cancer treatment that gave her a chance
- New, less damaging treatments are giving some patients the choice to try to preserve their ability to have children after cancer.
- — Elon Musk's DOGE takes aim at agency that had plans of regulating X
- Musk and other Silicon Valley executives have long railed against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for its work overseeing the tech industry. Now, Musk hopes to eliminate the agency.(Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)
- — Former U.S. ambassador Dennis Ross discusses risks to ceasefire in Gaza
- NPR asks Dennis Ross, a former U.S. ambassador and Middle East Special Envoy, about hostage release deadlines set by President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as other risks to the Gaza ceasefire.
- — Top Trump administration officials visiting Europe this week
- Top Trump administration officials are in Europe this week, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending his first NATO meeting and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris to discuss Ukraine.
- — What it would take to send people to Mars
- Proponents of going to Mars see peril and opportunity in Elon Musk's close relationship with Trump. Experts say just getting Americans back to the moon in the near future will be challenging enough.
- — Trump ally Steve Bannon pleads guilty and avoids jail time in border wall fraud case
- Bannon pleaded guilty in a Manhattan court to one count of scheme to defraud, a low-level felony. The case involved We Build the Wall, a non-profit that Bannon himself once suspected was a scam.(Image credit: Yuki Iwamura)
- — Monty the giant schnauzer wins Westminster dog show
- Monty's competition included a bichon frisé called Neal, a Skye terrier named Archer, a whippet and repeat runner-up known as Bourbon and a shih tzu called Comet who's been a finalist before.(Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
- — A giant schnauzer named Monty has won the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club
- Monty's competition included a bichon frisé called Neal, a Skye terrier named Archer, a whippet and repeat runner-up known as Bourbon and a shih tzu called Comet who's been a finalist before.(Image credit: Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
- — Efforts to fight foreign influence and protect elections in question under Trump
- Staffers at the U.S. cybersecurity agency working on countering foreign disinformation and on election security have been put on leave, according to sources who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisal.(Image credit: Joseph Prezioso)
- — White House blocks AP from event for using 'Gulf of Mexico'
- The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.(Image credit: ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)
- — Trump and Musk appear together in the Oval Office to defend the work of DOGE
- President Trump and Musk stood by their cost-cutting efforts. They said "billions" in waste had already been discovered, but offered few specifics on how they were arriving at those estimates.(Image credit: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
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