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Its water level is dropping. Big sinkholes are swallowing up whole tracts of land around it. Here is why a disaster is unfolding at the Middle East’s iconic salt lake. (Image credit: Ofir Berman for NPR)

International atomic experts have warned of a potential nuclear disaster with Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia plant in the middle of a war zone, bringing back terrifying memories of Chernobyl. (Image credit: Shone/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates’ first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan. (Image credit: John Raoux/AP)

Winter storm slams western U.S., bringing heavy snow to Northern California  NPR ‘Atmospheric river event’ crashes into California and down the West coast millions brace for storms  Daily Mail ‘Travel could become impossible’: Powerful winter storm could dump feet of snow on

Cinematheques across the country set to show works by leading filmmakers in 10-day festival

On a despondent morning for England players, Jude Bellingham had a final message for fans before heading to a flight out of Qatar.

Twitter Files reveal Trump ban came after Michelle Obama, others pressured the company  Fox News Twitter Executive Met with FBI Weekly around 2020 Election, Documents Show  Yahoo News Twitter Files part 4 drop showing executives’ approach to ‘change of policy for Trump

In high schools across the country, students are being placed in military classes without electing them on their own. “The only word I can think of is ‘indoctrination,’” one parent said.

Descriptions of civic life and some key historical events differ from the way they are taught in typical public school textbooks.

The psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey has been advocating tougher involuntary psychiatric treatment policies for 40 years. Now it’s paying off.