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"If I smell something out here, it's bad, and I can tell you during Harvey, it smelled real bad," said Juan Flores in Galena Park, Texas, about a leak that caused strong gasoline odors to waft through town.

Slow And Upbeat EPA Response To Hurricane Harvey Pollution Angers Residents

Hurricane Harvey caused industrial facilities to release an extra 5.98 million pounds of air pollution. Some people who live and work near the plants are frustrated with the federal response.

Radhika Jones, then deputy managing editor of <em>Time</em>, seen at a 2014 gala thrown by the magazine in New York City.

Radhika Jones Tapped To Be New Editor-In-Chief Of 'Vanity Fair'

Jones, editorial director of books at The New York Times, will become the magazine's fifth editor-in-chief since its modern revival — and just its second in the past quarter-century.

Trans Singer Performs For His Mother While On Tour With Gay Men's Chorus

The last time Joyce Arterberry heard her grown son sing, was when he was living as a little girl. Her son, Tom Kennard, is a transgender man who is part of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus on tour in the South.

Alibaba, China's E-Commerce Giant, Made More Than $25 Billion On Singles' Day

The Chinese company Alibaba just celebrated Singles' Day, a sale that this year racked in more than $25 billion. That dwarfs Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales in the United States.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Says Roy Moore Should 'Step Aside'

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore should step aside amid allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor decades ago. Republicans are also considering a write-in campaign for the Dec. 12 special election.

Air Pollution In New Delhi Forced Airlines To Ground Planes, Factories And Schools To Close

NPR's Elise Hu speaks with Anumita Roychowdhury, executive director at the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi. She talks about how the air pollution is so bad, United Airlines had to cancel flights over the weekend, factories had to be shut down and schools had to close at one point.

Global Carbon Emissions Rising Again After Brief Plateau, Researchers Say

After several years of nearly no growth in planetary carbon emissions, human-created carbon output is projected to rise again. That means the past few years were a pause, not a peak, researchers say.

Keurig got caught up in a social media backlash after tweeting that it was pulling its advertising from the <em>Hannity</em> show on Fox News .

Twitter Storm Lashes Keurig After It Pulls Ad From 'Hannity' Show

The coffee company faced its own boycott after it announced it stopped an advertisement from airing, following controversial remarks a TV host made about embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions is testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and is expected to get questions about his oversight of the Justice Department and Trump campaign contacts with Russia in 2016.

For Attorney General Sessions, Hill Testimony Presents Risk And Opportunity

Ahead of Tuesday's hearing with the House Judiciary Committee, a letter from the Justice Department appeared to throw GOP members of the panel as well as President Trump a bone.

Joe Biden and his son, the late Beau Biden, embrace at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. Beau Biden delivered the keynote address that year. He died seven years later from brain cancer.

'Promise Me': Joe Biden On Loss, Grief And Recovery

The former vice president is out with a book that recounts in heart-wrenching detail his son Beau's diagnosis and death from brain cancer — and his deliberations about running for president.

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