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A recent study found that many women treated for recurrent UTIs didn't have UTIs at all. Instead, their symptoms were caused by hormonally driven inflammation and pelvic floor dysfunction.β¦
Singapore has unveiled a national initiative built entirely around its collapsing birthrate. Some demographers say the plan includes policy ideas that could help American parents.β¦
The annual "anything goes" performing arts festival featured more than 4,200 performances this year. These are the ones we're still talking about.β¦
An NPR investigation found that people in the U.S. are dying from heat much more often than official counts show. We explore the reasons why β and how lives can be saved.β¦
The Trump administration announced a deal Friday to develop a vast amount of Venezuela's oil reserves, with the U.S. taking a majority stake. Energy experts say there are many reasons to be skeptical.β¦
Trump says U.S. struck a deal to take control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil, U.S. and Iran resume exchanging strikes, funding at the top of the agenda as House reconvenes.β¦
Only a fraction of the over 4,200 missing in Nepal are turning up among the dead, underscoring a bleak reality: The death toll is likely to keep rising for days to come.β¦
The number of people missing after a deadly Himalayan landslide and glacial collapse rose by about 1,750 on Monday. Rescuers are searching for survivors along the Nepal-China border.β¦
The Kremlin is redefining what it means to be a writer in Russia.β¦
New federal rules mean Arizona will be getting a lot less water from the Colorado river. City leaders say they've been planning for years and no one will run out, but keeping taps flowing is expensiveβ¦
At least 62 people were evacuated on Saturday after flooding destroyed footbridges and damaged a campground and cabins near Bright Angel Creek in Arizona, the National Park Service said.β¦
Argentina has produced some of the world's greatest soccer players. Could its youth system offer lessons for the United States?β¦
Four days after catastrophic floods wiped out villages along the Nepal-China border, thousands are still missing. Families look for answers but hear nothing.β¦
Dolly Parton met Carl Dean outside a Nashville laundromat in 1964. For decades, she was as protective of her marriage as he was fiercely private.β¦
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.β¦
The countryβs longest war came to an end exactly five years ago. Today it offers lessons for policymakers seeking to avoid an endless war in Iran.β¦
For many Americans, Ms. Parton represented an idealized style of faith: one centered in small rural congregations that prize community over ideology.β¦
The closure of a crucial Rhode Island bridge for safety reasons in 2023, and the traffic nightmare that followed, have dogged Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary.β¦
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has unveiled a giant billboard reading: "Lake Ontario β Now and Always." But tech giant Google has said it is renaming the lake for U.S. users, as President Trump demanded.β¦
A New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.β¦
Using a metal detector, Jeff Arnett honored a request from his father, who lost his band while washing his car more than 40 years ago.β¦
Being a successful self-starter doesnβt mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.β¦