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Cyclone Hudhud is being blamed for several deaths after it struck the port city of Visakhapatnam (often called Vizag), destroying shops and snapping power lines along the coast of the Bay of Bengal.

More than 6 million people have fled Ukraine, and many thousands have been killed.

Illinois legislators should expect a delay in their paychecks. Comptroller Leslie Munger announced Sunday that elected officials' pay will wait in line...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Carlton Larson, a professor at the UC Davis School of Law, about what is and is not treason.

The National Research Council today released a report on whether power lines have an adverse affect on human health. Some have suggested that the electric and magnetic fields generated by power lines can cause human disease, but the research council found scant evidence of that. Richard Harris reports.

Bentley Wolfe, 15, of Chrisman, was struck in the head by a line drive during a team practice on March 2. He was pronounced brain dead on March 6.

"No comedian wants to have to analyze and defend" jokes, says Rock, who wrote, directed and stars in the new film Top Five. He adds: "I'm not a politician; I'm not a thinker. I'm a comedian."

The disconnect between Emil Bove's aggressive stance at the time to hold rioters accountable — and his current hostility toward the Jan. 6 probe — has troubled some former colleagues.

Laura Sydell of member station W-N-Y-C in New York City reports on those profiting and trying to profit from one of the largest snow storms of the century.

An anti-vice crackdown in China has targeted mistresses and sex workers as part of a social problem, but mistresses have been an open secret in China for years.