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Phyllis Silver continues with Episode 5 of a selection from a land more kind than home by Wiley Cash, The Spokane Is Reading selection for 2017.

The wildfires are largely out in places like the Columbia River Gorge and the south Oregon coast, but the economic fallout continues in many nearby...

Ten sperm whales beached themselves on the shores of the Indonesia's Aceh Province of Indonesia. Professionals and volunteers saved six of them but the rest died.

The doll is modeled after fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad, the first U.S. Olympic athlete to compete in a hijab, who said she would sew head scarves onto her Barbies as a child.

Donald Trump Jr. communicated in real time last year with Wikileaks about his father's ongoing presidential campaign — the same Wikileaks the U.S. intelligence community calls a "hostile intelligence service." What do the newest revelations about these contacts reveal about what took place more than a year ago?

"We have dysfunction in Congress; we have dysfunction, I think, in the presidency; and we have dysfunction in the lobbying community" — reform lobbyist Meredith McGehee

A California man committed to riding a car ride at Disneyland 10,000 times after getting gastric bypass surgery. It took 760 visits and more than five years.

The law restricts a major government public health agency's research into gun violence, which kills or injures more people than many other infectious diseases.

Richard Cordray, the head of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is stepping down at the end of the month. The bureau was created in the wake of the financial crisis and has recovered $12 billion from financial firms on behalf of consumers, but Republicans have fought Cordray and the bureau, claiming its very existence is illegal and that it has harmed consumers by stifling lending.

Senate Republicans have proposed attaching a repeal of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate as a way to pay for tax cuts. Health policy consultant Robert Laszewski tells NPR's Kelly McEvers that doing so would increase the cost of insurance for many Americans.