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Union County responders posted on Facebook that the alarms were coming from this year's swarm of cicadas. Their singing can sound like a car alarm and can reach 120 decibels.

The National Security Agency is able to pluck data — including e-mails, videos, pictures, and connection logs — from the main servers of Microsoft, Google, Apple, and other leading U.S. tech companies, according to reports by The Washington Post and The Guardian. The newly disclosed U.S. government program, they say, is named PRISM.

What does the Internet look like? Journalist Andrew Blum decided to find out. His new book, Tubes, is a journey into the Internet's physical infrastructure — where our data is stored and transmitted.

The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack.

"It is with great sadness that I confirm that a number of young Irish citizens have lost their lives," says Ireland's foreign minister.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with January 6th committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin about the investigation and where it's headed next.

People have been downloading about 10 apps per month onto their devices. Great news for businesses, except research from the business consulting firm Nuance Enterprise shows that the vast majority of those apps are quickly forgotten about, especially those that are free.

A Pew Research Center survey shows that 63 percent of Republicans under the age of 34 favor legalization.

The city has reached a multi-million dollar settlement with the family of the unarmed black man shot and killed by a white police officer in April.

People in lower-income communities are more likely to die of colon cancer, often because they don't get diagnosed early enough. Those premature deaths take a financial toll, too.