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The average new car costs $50,000. The average used car is $25,000. Insurance, repairs and maintenance are soaring. But America's car-centric habits also cost us in more subtle ways.

Comments about diversity in superhero comics made last week by a Marvel executive unleashed an online firestorm. But heroes who look more like the growing comics readership are here to stay.

Here are recommended reads about the United States — perfect for the history buff on your gift list, or anyone looking to learn more about how the U.S got to where it is today.

Joe Biden made historic gains fighting street fentanyl, but Donald Trump reframed the drug issue in ways that fuel his domestic and foreign policy agendas.

Khamenei, the Islamic Republic's second supreme leader, has been killed. He had held power since 1989, guiding Iran through difficult times — and overseeing the violent suppression of dissent.

A Virginia after-school cursive club went viral. More than two dozen states require cursive in their curriculums. Is it an effective learning tool or just nostalgia?

Legal experts tell NPR five possible reasons that, despite the accusations made against rich and powerful people in the files, the DOJ has made no additional arrests. The big one? Lack of evidence.

More than 400 people who died of COVID were secretly interred in a mass grave on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos. Families are demanding a proper burial for their loved ones.

The airstrikes on multiple Houthi targets in Yemen follow more than two months of attacks by the Iran-backed militants against cargo ships and U.S. warships in the Red Sea.

President Donald Trump marked his 80th birthday on Sunday by hailing an initial agreement to end the war in Iran and staging a cage-fighting show on the White House's storied South Lawn.