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A famed Kansas space museum finds itself at the center of a criminal case over the fate of several NASA artifacts. The museum's former president has been charged with selling or trading items that were on loan to the museum.

The latest Pew Research Center poll, "A Year After the Iraq War," finds rising levels of mistrust and discontent with the United States and its policies. Those negative findings were prevalent in both Europe and the Arab world. The poll, conducted in Britain, France, Germany and Russia, also included Pakistan, Morocco, Jordan and Turkey. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and Pew director Andrew Kohut.

Iran has charged a detained Iranian-American academic with seeking to topple the ruling Islamic establishment. Haleh Esfandiari, 67, director of the Middle East Program at the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been held since early May.

A recent report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates that 2 million Ukrainians and Russians have died, been injured or gone missing during the war.

The Murray Developmental Center was a big issue in Southern Illinois during last year’s gubernatorial race. Former Gov. Pat Quinn had vowed to close the...

The National Hurricane Center says the second named storm of the 2013 hurricane season is heading west toward southern Mexico.

Kyrgyzstan's emergencies ministry says the plane went down about 100 miles west of the U.S.-operated Transit Center at Manas. That base supports U.S. military operations in nearby Afghanistan.

Under the direction of Governor Pat Quinn, Illinois is closing another state facility for people with severe developmental disabilities. He shuttered the…

As the lingering effects of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, are tallied, a growing number of first responders have died after being exposed to dust at the World Trade Center site. A recent autopsy report on a retired police detective directly linked his death to the attack.

Former marine Richard "Mac" McKinney was determined to bomb the local Islamic center in Muncie, Indiana. But the kindness he was shown there not only made him drop his plans, but eventually become a member of the community.