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TSA Union Calls For More Screeners To Alleviate Long Security Lines

The union that represents Transportation Security Administration screeners is calling for 6,000 more screeners to help alleviate long lines at airport checkpoints. It says Congress is to blame for the staffing shortages.

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross that's believed to be 65 years old, and her mate have welcomed a new chick at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Here, a week-old chick peeks out from its nest.

An Old Bird Can Hatch A New Chick — Even At Age 65

Wisdom, a Laysan albatross that researchers first tagged in 1956, has hatched what could be her 40th chick, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says.

For Democrats, The Weak GDP Report May Have Silver Linings. Maybe.

At first glance, Friday's report on economic growth looked dismal. But most of the GDP trouble centered on weak inventory accumulation this spring. As companies restock this fall, growth may rebound.

The countries with the tallest and shortest 18-year-old men and women in the world, according to a new study<em></em>.

Americans Are Shrinking, While Chinese And Koreans Sprout Up

A massive study looks at how heights around the world have changed over the past century.

Pakistan Ends Another Year With A Horrifying Attack

Dozens were killed in a suicide attack on Tuesday. In 2014, gunmen stormed a school and killed more than 140 people.Renee Montagne talks to author Mohsin Hamid about what the country is going through.

HIV-positive patients and their families protest hospitals' lack of medicines and supplies in Caracas, Venezuela, in April 2018. Some patients are fleeing to neighboring countries like Peru in search of lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs.

Venezuela's Health Crisis Spills Over To Neighboring Countries

Refugees are fleeing to try to get health care. And disease outbreaks across Latin America are being linked back to Venezuela.

Beef lanzhou noodles are a famous food in China, typically in the northwest area.

China Plans To Make Scratch From Noodles

Lessons in noodle-making is one of the ways that China hopes to eliminate rural poverty by 2020.

Why Ohio Lawmakers Are Rethinking Recent Nuclear Power Plant Bailouts

The clock is ticking for lawmakers to repeal the bailouts that are part of an alleged $61 million bribery scheme. They only have a few weeks before new charges appear on customers' electric bills.

In Rhode Island, VP Harris Will Promote American Families Plan

NPR's Noel King talks to Meghan Hughes, president of the Community College of Rhode Island, about the state's Promise program that offers recent high school graduates two years of free tuition.

Philippine President Duterte retirement fuels speculation around successor

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says he will retire from politics at the end of his term.

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