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A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing once again ... But Mercury's metal core takes up 80% of the planet. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, ...

Also, sign up for NPR's breaking news alerts ... attempt to limit the devastation from multiple wildfires. Images of vivid red clouds enveloping trees and scrubland in a wildfire often prompt ...

A spacecraft skimmed past Mercury this week, beaming back stunning new images of the surface and showing ... core takes up 80% of the planet. As NPR's Joe Palca reports, one of the most intriguing ...

Florida judge blocks release of special counsel report on Trump cases Florida federal judge Aileen Cannon ordered the Justice Department not to share Jack Smith's final report until a federal ...

Satellite images by Maxar Technologies show homes and ... Click through to LAist's coverage for the latest. NPR's Maureen Pao contributed to this report.

Their neighbor's home was the only house on their block that survived the fire. Thu., Jan. 9: Josh Lederer wears a mask to protect him from fumes as he retrieves his children's clothes from his ...

President-elect Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his Jan. 10 sentencing in the New York hush-money case. The move comes after a New York appeals court rejected a similar appeal ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is set to rule on the emergency motion to block the report's release. Rep. Gerald Connolly, Va., the top Democrat on the House Oversight and ...

President Biden is using a decades-old law to block drilling for oil in more than 625 million acres of U.S. ocean — the largest region a president has ever protected using this authority. It's a move ...