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Despite the long odds, Alex managed to intensify into a Category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 85 mph. Parts of the Azores are now under a hurricane warning.

In Hawaii, the Coast Guard is leading a large search for 12 service members who were believed to be aboard the transport helicopters.

SoCalGas wrote about two air samples with high levels of the carcinogen — but not about 12 others, the AP reports. And the LA Times writes that efforts to cap the well appear to have destabilized it.

American women are waiting longer to have their first kid, according to new data. The average age is now over 26.

Chinese home appliance maker Haier is attempting to expand its access to the U.S. market as the Chinese economy slows down.

Commentator Dede Donahue didn't always think about the guns she couldn't see. That is, until she had children. She first wrote about her experience in the Washington Post.

Stocks all over the world plunged Friday as investors became even more nervous about China's weakness and oil's collapse. The worries triggered a broad stock sell-off and sent oil below $30 a barrel.

Iraq recently celebrated a victory against the Islamic State in Ramadi, a city just 70 miles west of Baghdad. But NPR's Alice Fordham went there and found there's still heavy fighting.

The South Carolina governor's response to President Obama's State of the Union highlighted a reality for Haley — for some, she is too "brown." For others, not brown enough.

NPR reporter Jason Beaubien talks about his trip to Ghana to report on river blindness — and how a farmer who lost his vision is still able to weed his garden.