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President Biden will designate a new national monument to honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager who was brutally killed in 1955. The monument will also pay tribute to his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.

The Devils Hole pupfish's natural habitat is a single water-filled hole in a cave in the Nevada desert. Its numbers at one point dwindled to just 35 animals. How does it manage to survive?

Significant aftershocks continue to rock Chile two days after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake brought down buildings and bridges, and triggered a tsunami. And yet it's already clear the devastation won't reach the levels seen in Haiti. Walter Mooney, a seismologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, explains the differences between the two quakes.

A pair of suicide bomb attacks on Moscow's subway system Monday killed more than three dozen people. Clifford Levy, the Moscow bureau chief of The New York Times, says though it's unconfirmed, it's assumed the female suicide bombers were connected to the insurgency in Chechnya.

Playwright Harold Pinter came into prominence at a time when Tennessee Williams' and Arthur Miller's plays were being performed in the U.S. and Bernard Shaw and the Boulevard Comedies dominated London's West End. In contrast to the work at the time, Pinter's plays dealt with the theater of menace.

Author Josh Dean describes how the CIA worked to secretly resurface a sub that the Soviet Union considered lost. Their cover story involved eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes.

North Korea appears to be taking advantage of wars and geopolitical contests to help it make a strategic shift in its foreign policy — positioning itself in an anti-U.S. bloc of actors and nations.

In her first broadcast interview in decades, novelist Anne Tyler introduces us to her new book, The Beginner's Goodbye; her Baltimore; and her definition of heaven.

As the blame continues on who's responsible for a deadly attack on a Gaza City hospital. President Biden has weighed in. He says he believes it was an errant missile by a Palestinian faction.

How long have humans lived in North America? For decades, the commonest answer has been perhaps 14,000 years — but new findings add weight to arguments for a longer human history in the Americas.