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A full-blown congressional debate on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts will unfold this fall, but some lawmakers have already weighed in on the most controversial issue: whether it makes sense, at a time of huge budget deficits, to extend tax relief for those earning more than $250,000.

Trump announced the dismissal of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and said he would nominate Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star general, to succeed him as the top U.S. military officer.

Nothing prepares you for losing a beloved parent to illness. But when you can't be present at the bedside or the graveside, how do you let go and begin to grieve?

College football is looking iffy with the Big 10 and Pac-12 cancelling their fall seasons. NPR's Scott Simon discusses the week's sport news with Michelle Steele of ESPN.

It's time for college football, and this year it's going to be quite different. Colleges have switched conferences and the playoffs are expanding from four teams to 12.

NPR's Scott Simon and ESPN's Michele Steele discuss the new era of college sports and the latest running of a very old auto race.

A federal manufacturing contract to increase COVID-19 vaccine production has an unusual clause that could move a company's employees and their families to the front of the vaccination line.

A health official in Gaza says 338 Palestinians, including more than 70 children, have been killed so far in the 11-day conflict.

An analysis of data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that incomes for the very wealthiest Americans have grown by nearly a third in recent years in the same period that those for the bottom 99 percent increased by only a fraction.

Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri is the "king of clubs" in a pack of playing cards issued to U.S. troops to help identify Iraqi officials. He is thought to have been instrumental in the sudden rise of ISIS.