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Since touching down in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance rover has already cached 6 samples that could one day be brought back to Earth. Astrobiologists hope they hold signs of past microbial life.

Amazon will face two union elections at once. Federal officials have set a union vote for Amazon workers at a Staten Island warehouse, coinciding with the ongoing re-do election in Bessemer, Ala.

The Ghanaian singer would vocalize and dance all night long to send off the departed. On the verge of his long awaited first trip to perform abroad, he has died, reportedly of COVID.

The Iowa House passed a bill Wednesday that would phase in a flat personal income tax of 4 percent and eliminate taxes on retirement income. It would also give tax breaks to retired farmers and people who retire from employee-owned companies.

The payments startup Fast has raised tens of millions of dollars from venture capitalists, but critics of its CEO Domm Holland say his past in Australia is being overlooked.

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Civil Rights Queen, tells NPR's Ailsa Chang how identity and lived experience loomed large in the confirmation of Constance Baker Motley to the federal bench in 1966.

Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell used terms like "climate" and "low-carbon" more frequently in recent annual reports, but their actions on clean energy didn't match their words, researchers conclude.

The Rye Riptides began as a science class project in New Hampshire. Some 462 days and 8,300 miles later, a sixth-grader retrieved it from an uninhabited Norwegian island, with its notes still intact.

Families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre hope the $73 million settlement will put companies that insure gun-makers on notice that they could be on the hook for huge future payouts.

The incident, in which someone saw a man in a wetsuit get dragged underwater, is the city's first fatal shark attack since 1963. Beaches are closed while lifeguards patrol for further shark sightings.