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Lindsey Wasson/APU.S. gasoline prices are up nearly 80 cents from a month ago, while diesel prices have shot up even more. Diesel is now just under $5 a gallon, according to AAA, up $1.34 from last month. -
Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty ImagesA mix of decorated veterans and rising stars won 24 medals for Team USA, 13 of them gold. The last one arrived Sunday, when the U.S. sled hockey team beat Canada to win its fifth straight gold medal.
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Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue re-imagines the story of the American West — and the Apache fight for survival — in an epic that's both defiantly challenging and, at times, magical. -
With the Iran war in its third week and the price of oil reaching nearly $105 a barrel on Monday, President Trump again urged NATO and China to help secure the vital Strait of Hormuz. -
Crooked contracts, bribery, shady characters. In 1951, millions tuned in to watch the Kefauver organized crime hearings, showing the power of television. -
After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don't want to lose patients' trust.
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As an energy crisis grows, some countries are more prepared because of renewable energy and electric vehicles. Pakistan reduced its reliance on imported natural gas because of the growth of solar.
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It's thrilling to see the Academy recognize a weird, funny, scary performance like Amy Madigan's in Weapons. Here's what NPR critic Linda Holmes thought of the awards. -
Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won best actor and best actress. Paul Thomas Anderson received best director. Cassandra Kulukundis won the Academy's first ever casting award. -
See looks from best actor Michael B. Jordan, best actress Jessie Buckley and more stars on the Oscars red carpet on Sunday night. -
Duke will be the top overall seed in the men's NCAA basketball tournament. In the women's, the top-ranked UConn Huskies are undefeated and hope to repeat as champions for the first time in a decade. -
A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.
