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Egypt has intensified its military response against insurgents who've pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State. But some warn that the government's crackdown is creating more extremists.

Baseball writer Tom Gage is being honored by the Hall of Fame for his long and illustrious career at The Detroit News. But he didn't leave his beat voluntarily. He recently lost his job at the paper.

It's not really hotel. It's a van, parked on the East River. But it's cheap.

The U.S. now has permission to use a Turkish air base near the border with Syria to launch airstrikes against the self-proclaimed Islamic State, U.S. officials say.

SUNY Buffalo professor Henry Louis Taylor Jr. warns that while there are major positives to the deal, it has its negatives as well.

For the first time since 1994, six American teens won the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Researchers say a fast-growing new form of a seaweed tastes like bacon when fried.

NASA's probe to Pluto has revealed stunning new pictures of the distant world. They show evidence of glaciers moving across the surface.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Soner Cagaptay, director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute, about Turkey allowing U.S. airstrikes against extremists in Syria and Iraq.

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