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ENCOM says a second plane involved in the encounter landed safely.

Since the start of the war, at least seven other American troops have been killed in action.

With oil and gas shipments blocked from getting through the Strait of Hormuz because of the war, Brent crude oil again topped $100 a barrel today.

Yesterday, Iran's new supreme leader said in his first public statement that his country will continue to block the globally vital shipping waterway.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine

The Trump administration's decision to temporarily lift sanctions on Russian oil will only empower the Kremlin.

NPR's Joanna Kicis has more from Kyiv.

The Department of Homeland Security is identifying the person who attacked a synagogue in Michigan yesterday as 41-year-old Ayman Mohamed Ghazali.

They say the man rammed his truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield outside Detroit.

Alex McLennan of member station WDET reports Ghazali was a naturalized citizen from Lebanon where...

The mayor of Mashgara tells an NPR producer some of the suspects' relatives were killed in Israeli strikes last week.

That's Alex McLennan reporting from Washington.

This is NPR News.

New research suggests that when an animal virus jumps to humans and leads to disease outbreaks, that usually happens by chance without unusual evolution from the virus.

NPR's Jonathan Lambert explains.

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economy did not expand as much as initially thought in the final months of 2025 during a historically long government shutdown in that period.

New government data revised down the pace of growth in gross domestic product, the nation's output of goods and services, to seven-tenths of a percent.

Sharp decline from the 4.4 percent in the third quarter.