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Around three dozen Iraqis are killed when a car bomb explodes outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad, in the second suicide attack in as many days. On Tuesday, more than 50 Iraqis were killed in a car bombing outside a police station south of the Iraqi capital. Nearly all the victims in both attacks were men applying for jobs. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

Reports of detainee abuses in Iraq have focused on Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad. But now, a Canadian civilian has filed a lawsuit claiming he was tortured by U.S. troops at the Camp Bucca detention center in southern Iraq, and witnessed the abuse of other prisoners. Camp Bucca officials deny abuses ever took place. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

During a career that spanned more than six decades she sold more than 150 million records, won 12 Grammys, was voted along into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2021, and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005.

Russian missiles hit the center of the Ukrainian-held town of Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region late Tuesday. Several deaths have been confirmed, with that number expected to rise as more than 50 people are injured or buried in the rubble.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center says Ashoka Mukpo was cleared by the CDC and will be discharged on Wednesday.

Last December, the state of Illinois tentatively agreed to settle a class action lawsuit over the treatment of prisoners with mental illness. But...

Under Olympic rules, only official sponsors are allowed to sell coffee at the Winter Games in Sochi. Starbucks isn't one of them. But NBC, the exclusive U.S. broadcaster of the Games, found a loophole and constructed a secret Starbucks in its media center.

The center of Ukraine's capital has been the scene of protests for several months, and this week dozens of people died there. Quick looks at the site from before and after the unrest are revealing.

It's been a dreary winter but penguins should be used to it, right? Not the Humboldt penguins at the Sea Life Center in Britain. They are natives of coastal South America — far from the U.K.'s unrelenting wind and rain. They're feeling so blue that zoo staff had to prescribe antidepressants.

Milo Vieland is a caseworker for transgender and gender nonconforming people at the Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago. Through a program that...