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Idaho is having its worst summer for wildfire smoke in 25 years and has been America's top smoke producer since June. One megafire will likely only stop when snows arrive.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has said he'll recommend removing fluoride from the country's drinking water. Juneau, Alaska, did so in 2007.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted by a grand jury on federal criminal charges. The indictment detailing the charges against Adams, a Democrat, was still sealed late Wednesday.

Desafortunadamente, el número de scams o fraudes reportados en Estados Unidos sigue en aumento. En 2023, se reportaron 2.6 millones de estafas, con pérdidas de 10 mil millones de dólares frente a los 2.5 millones y 9 mil millones registrados en 2022 respectivamente, según el informe “Instantánea Fraudulenta de 2023 (A Scammy Snapshot of 2023) de la Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC, por sus siglas en inglés).

The law mandates that TikTok be banned in the United States on Jan. 19, unless Chinese company ByteDance divests itself of ownership. Attorneys for TikTok had challenged the law's constitutionality.

Master chocolatier Benoit Racquet describes what makes Belgian chocolate special and Ramin Ganeshram explains the (dark) history of chocolate. Plus, ethically sourced chocolate bars you can feel good about buying.

In northern California, a group of volunteers spend every night from late fall through winter as crossing guards–escorting migrating salamanders across a rural road.

Black history happens every day, and the stories from NPR listeners are good examples of that. From becoming the first Black mayor of a town to singing music about change, these stories matter.

Women from a Kyiv suburb traumatized by a 2022 massacre by Russian troops joined a volunteer air defense unit to take down Russia's drones — and deal with their fears.