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Mass shootings have become so common in the U.S. that one group has created a mass shooting protocol checklist to guide mayors and city officials during the first 24 hours after a tragedy occurs.

Cities across the U.S. were stepping up security after the explosions in London on Thursday. The Bush administration raised the terror alert to code orange for mass transit systems -- but not for airlines.

John Cephas and Phil Wiggins are two musicians from different generations who have played Piedmont blues together for 25 years. The two perform their music and talk with NPR's Scott Simon about their distinctive brand of the blues.

An attack that hit a boys' school in Afghanistan's capital has left students dead and wounded. It's the latest in sectarian violence against Shia Muslims since the Taliban took control in 2021.

Four of the cases were found in Florida, while the fifth was logged in Texas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The population of monarch butterflies that migrated south to Mexico to hibernate fell 26% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new report.

The aging KRI Nanggala-402 was reportedly on a torpedo-training mission in waters north of Bali when it failed to report results of the exercise.

The treasure was uncovered in the basement of a historic building in northern Italy and dates to the Roman Empire.

The tsunami that battered coastlines along the Sunda Strait over the weekend follows a similar wave that pounded the island of Sulawesi in September, killing an estimated 2,100.

An 18-year-old in Germany successfully obtained his license on Tuesday and celebrated — how else? — by going for a drive. He was promptly clocked by police going nearly twice the speed limit.

The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph, is expected to make landfall on the southwestern coast of Mexico sometime on Tuesday or Wednesday.

The Army says it will adhere to social distancing rules. Officials said that training will operate at "a reduced capacity," but did not offer specifics. Basic training had been paused for two weeks.

The massive prehistoric structure "is significantly larger than any comparative prehistoric monument that we know of in Britain, at least," a lead researcher in the project says.

Economic uncertainty from the coronavirus pandemic is keeping potential investors in "opportunity zones" on the sidelines, according to a survey of people involved in the sector.

Trump has defended his refusal to wear a mask, arguing that he and those around him are routinely tested for the coronavirus.

Four attacks killed dozens of people, local media say, in a day of unusually intense violence for one southern province.

Five people have died because of the outbreak and 96 were sent to hospitals, the FDA says in its latest update. The agency says 210 people were sickened, in 36 states.

Venezuela's prisons are notoriously overcrowded. Relatives of detainees clashed with police in riot gear outside the facility.

After lashing Central America and the Florida Keys, the storm is expected to make landfall north of Tampa on Thursday, bringing heavy rain and potentially dangerous storm surge.

Crowds are gathering to cheer the news of Joe Biden's presidential win near the White House at Black Lives Matter Plaza.