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As tension boils between the two regional powers, witnesses say it's not clear that Iran's embassy sustained damage, or was even hit.

Owner Karl Durkheimer says President Obama's gun policies, including this week's executive orders, motivate many of his customers' purchases.

There’s growing momentum in Middle Tennessee to create a bus rapid transit system, or BRT, along the interstates. Often referred to as “freeway BRT,”...

State Trooper Brian Encinia is losing his job after being accused of perjury regarding how he treated Bland during a traffic stop. Bland was found hanged in her jail cell three days later.

Twitter may or may not be lifting its famous 140-character length maximum. We look back at some of the ways the restrictions made us get creative and spurred new phenomena, like "twitterature."

I figured I'd slap the baby's bottom. Wrong! Luckily I got a lesson from trainers who teach birth attendants in the developing world.

At least three genes that predispose some of us to hay fever and other allergies came from Neanderthal DNA, scientists say. The genes very likely boosted the immunity of our early ancestors.

South Korea made the announcement after Pyongyang claimed it tested a hydrogen bomb.

Two years ago, in January 2013, oil was about $100 dollars a barrel. At that time, towns near new oil fields expanded rapidly, filling up with workers and overflowing revenue. But how are those towns doing now that oil is worth about half what it was then? The Planet Money team checks in with oil workers and residents in Williston, N.D.

China's economy and stock market are taking hits. Billionaire George Soros says it's setting the stage for another global meltdown. But others argue China's troubles will not trigger a crisis.