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Rick Spinrad previously served as the agency's top scientist. His nomination comes at a difficult period for NOAA, which spent the Trump administration mired in scandal and without a permanent leader.

A group of leading Shiite clerics are holding talks to resolve the U.S. standoff with radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose anti-American rhetoric touched off a wave of attacks on U.S.-led forces in several Iraqi cities. Al-Sadr's militiamen have withdrawn from police and government buildings they had occupied, but the security situation remains unstable. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

President Biden is calling for unity to address several current crises, but that will prove difficult in a country as divided as ever.

Game 2 of the series goes to the Astros after their offense comes alive and the Dodgers' bullpen falters.

Faith and religion have been career-long themes for the Run the Jewels rapper — if often in a wary, ambivalent light. But on Michael, his first solo LP in over a decade, something has changed.

Starting in 2018, companies will have to disclose how CEO pay compares to median worker pay. A recent survey of the biggest CEO-to-worker pay ratios shows Discovery at the top at nearly 2,000-to-1.

Research shows increasingly that layering one strategy on top of another can help minimize the spread of the coronavirus in classrooms.

The top-ranked Swiatek has won seven titles in 2022, the most by a woman since Serena Williams in 2014.

The two diplomats will meet for the first time in the aftermath of the balloon crisis earlier this month.

Also: President Trump apparently wrote the letter on his health released by his doctor; hundreds of protesters are arrested in Paris in May Day rallies; and NASA prepares to send a new probe to Mars.