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U.S. airstrikes against the militant Islamist group in Somalia killed at least 150 militants. Steve Inskeep talks to Seth Jones of the Rand Corp. about U.S. interests in Somalia.

Verizon has agreed to pay a fine over allegations it did not tell customers it was adding "supercookies." Those trackers keep collecting data on users even when he or she tries to delete all cookies.

Research from the Dartmouth Atlas Project identifies care that older people receive that doesn't match clinical guidelines or, often, patients' own preferences.

An Australian study found half that country's wildlife are considered ugly, such a hairy rodents, and that most of the in-depth scientific studies are devoted to charmers, like koalas and kangaroos.

Nearly three years after she sustained a serious injury in the Boston Marathon bombing, college student Victoria McGrath, 23, has died while traveling.

A Mumbai eatery is giving discounts to women who wear very high heels. Cops in a Russian city are pulling over female drivers to hand them roses.

It can be hard to get teens to read, especially with so much technology competing for their attention. A new book looks at ways teachers can help young people find books (and find themselves).

The NCAA reports college athletes suffer more than 10,000 concussions a year, but perhaps more alarming is the fact that about three-quarters of these c...

In 2010, Tilikum killed SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau. Her death and SeaWorld's treatment of its orcas were at the center of the 2013 documentary Blackfish.

Is the FBI director right when he says that strong encryption is taking us to an unprecedented new world, where some places in our life are "warrantproof"?