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The Navy's littoral combat ships are plagued by problems including engine failure and power losses. The ships were supposed to be nimble and versatile but instead have proved costly and ineffective.

Hurricane Hermine made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Friday morning. She’s the first hurricane to hit the Sunshine State since Wilma in October,…

A beverage created in the laboratory now has a better-for-you organic version. But nutrition experts point out, this sports drink is still loaded with sugar and calories.

If it were a phone call, we might call it a butt dial: A strong radio signal that set off speculation about possible alien origins is now believed to have come from a terrestrial source.

This presidential campaign has, in many ways, become a question of character. In this hourlong special, Rachel Martin digs into key moments over the decades that helped cement their reputations.

In his statement, Brown suggests that the July 7 sniper attack that claimed the lives of five officers has taken its toll. He is ending his 33-year career with the police.

His proposed "great wall" gets all the attention. But his plan would mean record spending on top of what's already record spending on border enforcement.

The Category 1 hurricane hit Florida, then weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland. Hermine is expected to drop heavy rain in Georgia and the Carolinas before tracking out over the Atlantic.

Longtime political correspondent Ron Fournier is leaving journalism and Washington, D.C., to return to his native Detroit. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to him about his career in political journalism.

NPR's Scott Simon's interview last week with author Tom Wolfe prompted an unusual number of responses from listeners regarding the author's questioning of some aspects of the theory of evolution.