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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Portland's lead health official, Jennifer Vines, about the extreme heat's impact on the Pacific Northwest.

Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member on the House Oversight Committee, says materials from an IRS workshop in 2010 instructed agents to flag applications from "progressive" groups as well as those with "Tea Party," "patriot" or "9/12" in their names.

The world of central banking is largely a man's world. But Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve's new leader, has been undeterred by such barriers since she was in high school in Brooklyn. Now global financial markets will be watching her every move.

The hearings come after years of lobbying by island nations who fear they could simply disappear under rising sea waters,

Israeli and Hamas negotiators are meeting in Qatar to discuss a potential ceasefire in the 10-month old Gaza war. Hamas says it doesn’t have all the hostages and some were seized by families.

The grim milestone was crossed on Sunday, one day after India recorded more than 78,000 cases of the virus.

Runners from Kenya, who had for years been considered the best of the best in the world, were nearly shut out from the podium entirely.

It is the first major jazz club in New York City to shut its doors permanently due to the coronavirus crisis. Its owners announced the club's closing on Wednesday, after more than two decades.

Weather-related traffic accidents have accounted for some of the deaths. Others have collapsed while shoveling snow. Several victims are said to have been homeless people who either didn't want to go to shelters or didn't get to one in time. Thankfully, more moderate weather is about to arrive.

Anti-government protesters took to the streets nationwide as Brazil's death toll reached a grim benchmark — a tragedy many critics attribute to President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the pandemic.

These women average a $250,00 in salaries each year. They were asked how they made it and what difficulties they face.

Boris Johnson has compared Hillary Clinton to a "sadistic nurse" and written poetry about Turkey's president having sex with a goat.