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A month ago, President Trump went on Fox and downplayed the potential lethality of the novel coronavirus and compared it to the seasonal flu.

This week's selection of what NPR correspondents, editors and producers are reading online includes a prison story and a baseball tale.

Just three "no" votes by Senate Republicans would likely be enough to sink the GOP health bill. Democrats who lost the battle in the House are still convinced they can win the political war.

Even though she's faced blowback, Bush argues that it's her responsibility as a member of Congress to speak out for people she sees as oppressed — even if it makes others uncomfortable.

“It was [an] illimitable expanse of desert prairie... a region almost as trackless as the ocean,” wrote General Randolph Marcy in 1852, in one of the…

It was WPA site 17 dash 1. In 1936, federal works crews were using heavy equipment – the likes of which had never been seen in West Texas – to try to…

For Native peoples, the arrival of Europeans in the Americas brought destruction on a staggering scale. Along with the catastrophic human toll, there was…

The Chihuahuan Desert is the largest desert in North America, and, in terms of the richness of species, it may be the most biologically diverse desert in…

“Without leaving home,” the Tao Te Ching says, “you can know the whole world.” It's a lesson the covid pandemic has taught many of us, who've found our…

Our region's Native American legacy endures in communities and living cultural traditions – and in countless emblems and traces on the West Texas…