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Robots. Androids. The Terminator. C3P0. We've given a lot of names to AI: artificial intelligence. Some believe it's the key to humanity's future, others the first step towards our downfall.

The jury has heard testimony from Vallow Daybell's close friend, along with relatives and investigators, in the long-awaited "zombie" murder trial.

With much of the U.S. facing extreme weather, NASA chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin talks to NPR's A Martinez about what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise.

Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States Tuesday. He delivered a sober, plain-spoken inaugural address that did not contain the soaring rhetoric that often marked his campaign speeches. He told the crowd, "What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility."

The U.S. economy continues to defy gravity, growing rapidly despite high interest rates. Consumer spending is powering the expansion, but it's not clear how long that can last.

In India's capital New Delhi, many impoverished people spend their days picking through garbage — looking for anything that can be recycled and sold. But now there is competition. A battle between rag pickers and new corporate "waste managers" is raging over the trash of the affluent.

The far western Kentucky community of Hopkinsville came together Friday to celebrate the legacy of the late bell hooks, a Black intellectual, poet and author from the city who went on to become one of the most celebrated in the modern feminist canon.

No awards will be given this year, the foundation told NPR, after a controversy exploded over changes to what was once called the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award.

Seniors choosing Medicare Advantage plans for the first time often don't realize they might get locked out of traditional Medicare for good. But changing this problem must be done state by state.

It's not all one mega-storm: While Arctic cold is permeating from the north, the snowfall is coming from a variety of systems.