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The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever put into space, launched December 25. Astronomers are watching and waiting at mission control in Baltimore.

Hurricane Harvey is barreling toward the Texas coast. Houston-based meteorologist Eric Berger tells David Greene that the storm could dump several feet of rain in a few days.

The whoopie pie is a favorite New England dessert. Since bigger is always better, a Vermont baker sets out to make the biggest whoopie pie in the world.

President Trump speaks to the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group that strongly backed him in the 2016 campaign. NPR takes a look at what is on his agenda when it comes to gun rights.

Israel says it has accepted a cease-fire proposal put forward by Egypt to end hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. What's still not clear are the intentions of Hamas.

The Pentagon kept Lloyd Austin's hospitalization under wraps for days. He's still recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Pentagon said, but he has returned to his full duties.

The U.S. and several governments worldwide have expelled Syrian diplomats in a coordinated protest against last weekend's massacre of more than 100 civilians in the village of Houla. The diplomatic fallout has spread to California, where Syrian Consul General Hazem Chehabi announced his resignation from the post. For more on his decision, Renee Montagne talks to Chehabi.

There is more information on the story of the al-Qaida plot to bomb an airplane heading to the United States. It turns out, the man who was supposed to be the bomber was working for an intelligence service.

Top lawmakers on the Senate and House tax writing panels reached a deal on a plan that would temporarily expand the child tax credit and business credits but it's unclear whether the bill will pass.

Ash from an Icelandic volcano is causing big and costly disruptions in Europe but, so far, it's nothing compared with the havoc caused by the country's economic eruption a year and a half ago. How can a remote island in the North Atlantic, with only about 320,000 people, be the source of so much damage?