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With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.

Wetlands managers have spent years using fire and chemicals to fight phragmites, an invasive reed that chokes everything else out. But coaxing beneficial native plants to move back in is difficult.

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The State Department claimed a plan to buy thousands of armored Teslas was left over from the Biden administration. A document obtained by NPR shows the Biden plan was far smaller.

The percentage of students passing math in North Carolina and in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools continued to inch up last year as schools recovered after the coronavirus pandemic disrupted instruction. But math scores are still well below pre-pandemic levels, and reading scores have been harder to move.

The executive order would affect agencies like the SEC and FDIC, but it excludes the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and Open Market Committee.

Western countries have imposed layers of crippling sanctions on Syria for decades. Syrians say the sanctions are impeding any hope of rebuilding a country shattered by civil war.

A rare vanishing flower that grows in only two places on earth survives only because people weed its habitat.

The list includes the first woman to serve as chief of staff. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to author and reporter Annie Karni about how President-elect Donald Trump may engage women for prominent roles.

The top-ranked Swiatek has won seven titles in 2022, the most by a woman since Serena Williams in 2014.