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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who was among the Congressional leaders gathered at the White House Wednesday for a briefing on the president's border wall plans.

A substantial share of Americans are feeling hopeful about the new year, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll. And some of us, especially young people, plan to make resolutions.

The Colorado seventh-grader was unimpressed by the options her parents had to test water in their home. So she created a sensor-based device using chemically treated carbon nanotubes to do it faster.

Online disinformation campaigns thrive in big, polarizing moments for the country — and the impeachment inquiry is no exception.

Stocks continued their downward slide on Thursday amid growing fears of the coronavirus. Trading was briefly halted after the S&P 500 index fell 7% in the opening minutes of trading.

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, expected to oversee the U.S. Census Bureau as the next commerce secretary, says she will "rely on the experts" at the agency to ensure the 2020 census is accurate.

After a year away, an NPR reporter returns to Lebanon to find a country racked by inflation, degraded services and the pandemic and still picking up the pieces from August's explosion in Beirut.

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to tackle the climate crisis. Nonetheless, the oil and gas industry is reacting with a surprising amount of optimism.

President Biden is taking questions from reporters on his top foreign and domestic priorities after talks with world leaders at the G-20 in Rome — and just ahead of the U.N. climate summit.

Steve Inskeep talks with Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli, who is threatening to recruit conservative challengers to Republicans who vote against repealing the Affordable Care Act.