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The candidates for Tennessee's mid-term primaries shifted after redistricting. It's a lot for voters to sort out as they head to the polls.

Leo Tolstoy is widely considered one of the world's greatest novelists, praised for his realistic fiction and complex moralistic aesthetic. Anton Chekhov…

About 6 million households in California face water restrictions this summer. But after years of drought conditions, some residents are adapting by planting yards that use less water.

Watch the live ceremony on Wednesday, Sept. 10, at 7:30 p.m. ET / 6:30 p.m. CT.

Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly invoked executive privilege as attempts to block testimony about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

By Chris TaylorMurray, KY – In regional OVC Baseball, Murray State went two and one against Tennessee Tech over the weekend. Austin Peay beat U-T Martin…

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Health officials in Houston, Texas, have discovered mosquitoes carrying the virus that causes St. Louis encephalitis in seven areas of the city. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels with one of the health department's "mosquito men" as he makes his way through Houston's extensive sewer system, trapping mosquitoes and sending them back to the lab for testing. (6:15) CORRECTION, aired on All Things Considered Sept. 6, 2001: Wade Goodwyn's report about a mosquito surveillance officer in Houston brought out the science police in the audience. Dr. Victor Sloan of Scotch Plains, N.J., writes this: "In Wade Goodwyn's excellent story on Houston's mosquito hunters, he said 'when the dry ice melts.' Melting is the act of a solid becoming liquid. Dry ice does not melt, it sublimes. That is, it goes directly from a solid to a gas, without ever becoming liquid. When I was about 10, my father tried to explain this to me. It took me years to believe him."

The owner of the Florida company intending to purchase several facilities from Addiction Recovery Care in Kentucky says ARC’s owner Tim Robinson will use funds from the sale to make a payment to the U.S. Department of Justice over Medicaid violations.

John Lansing will succeed Jarl Mohn as NPR's next CEO. Lansing is currently chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.