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Gaza health officials say the death toll of Palestinians killed in the war has topped 40,000. We look at three of those recent deaths: a mother and her newborn twins died in Gaza this week.

More than 250 workers have died in what experts say are preventable trench collapses over the last decade -- with at least 20 fatalities in Texas. Critics say laws aren't enforced sufficiently.

NPR's Noel King speaks with Minnesota's Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan about who may be behind the disruption in the state, and why Minnesota has become a flashpoint in race relations.

In Haifa in northern Israel, people wonder if Israel is preparing a ground invasion of Lebanon.

It's been one year since Congress cut business and personal taxes. Noel King checks in with Richard Rubin, tax policy reporter at The Wall Street Journal, to gauge their effect on the economy.

The whoopie pie is a favorite New England dessert. Since bigger is always better, a Vermont baker sets out to make the biggest whoopie pie in the world.

President Trump speaks to the National Rifle Association, the gun rights group that strongly backed him in the 2016 campaign. NPR takes a look at what is on his agenda when it comes to gun rights.

It's long been popular wisdom in America that if you want to make it, you should pack up and move to the big city. But new research from economists offers caution for a huge segment of the workforce.

Israel says it has accepted a cease-fire proposal put forward by Egypt to end hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. What's still not clear are the intentions of Hamas.

The Pentagon kept Lloyd Austin's hospitalization under wraps for days. He's still recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Pentagon said, but he has returned to his full duties.