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The Russian government's plan to raise the national pension age for men and women has sparked protests across the country.

President Trump marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in Shanksville, Pa. A new memorial tower was dedicated there to honor the 40 people killed when their hijacked plane crashed.

Monsoon floods won't stop these kids from going to school in Bangladesh — especially if the school comes to the student!

A grocery store employee in eastern Ohio has been charged with felony theft. For eight years, nearly every day she was helping herself to between three and five slices of ham.

Rita Ekwere, also known as Ray BLK, is the first unsigned artist to win the BBC Sound Of poll. She tells NPR's Lakshmi Singh why it's important for her to highlight social justice issues in her music.

Maple syrup, cheese and craft beer. To these Vermont products, now add hemp. Farmers in the state are increasingly growing it to extract a compound called CBD for its purported medicinal benefits.

After nine years of a debt crisis that spawned economic upheaval and austerity measures, Athens will regain a degree of control over its finances, but officials say it's not out of the woods yet.

The Catholic church is facing another crisis over sexual abuse by clergy. David Greene talks to Jesuit priest Thomas Reese of Religion News Service about the implications.

It took a jury less than four hours of deliberation to convict a Detroit-area man of sexually assaulting a woman who had fallen asleep in the window seat next to him during an overnight flight.

St. Petersburg, Russia, is gorgeous, thanks in part to the French architect Jean- Francois Thomas de Thomon. His image, however, has been confused with a Scottish chemist named Thomas Thomson.