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A cat named Hatty climbed onto a railroad bridge, and the BBC reports firefighters on ladders could not reach the animal. After the failed rescue, the cat eventually climbed down herself.

Uber had told investors to be prepared for it to lose even more than that; its first earnings report as a public company came in on the better end of Uber's projected range.

Facebook, Google and other tech giants have been hit with problems they didn't anticipate their software creating. An MIT professor is teaching students that ethics is essential to their future work.

Doctors who feel burned out are more likely to cut back on hours or leave medicine entirely. This costs hospitals and health care organizations billions each year, new research finds.

The Arkansas River is rising well above its previous record, and it's forecast to stay that way for days. That's putting pressure on old levees and making it hard for some residents to evacuate.

Jill Lepore, author of These Truths, argues that supporters of free and fair liberal government can't just hold their noses and wait for voters to realize that democracy is better than autocracy.

As a U.S. Department of Energy plane flew over the Amazon rainforest, it sipped and sampled air in real time. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...

The marijuana and hemp extract has been touted as a way to ease anxiety and inflammation, despite limited science. Now, the FDA is holding its first public hearing on cannabidiol.

This episode overwhelms the Listener with “Heaving Bosoms”—the lusty metafictional saga continues with parts 3, 4, and 5, and you can’t get more bosomy…

At least 11 people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a municipal office building in Virginia Beach, Va. The suspect, a city employee, is also dead.