A vehicle navigates a sharp curve on Highway 160 in Dade County, Missouri
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MoDOT is evaluating roadways before deciding which ones can have higher speed limits.
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Andy Kropa)/Invision/APTwo weeks after being nominated for an Emmy for his leading role in Wonder Man, Abdul-Mateen found out that the series had been cancelled. He says Marvel could do more to support Black-led projects. -
Mandel Ngan/AFPThe U.S. federal debt hit a record $40 trillion this week. The debt has doubled since 2017, and just paying interest on the accumulated debt now costs the government more than $1 trillion a year.
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Jacquelyn Martin/APDr. Heidi Overton is currently working as a White House policy aide. If confirmed, she would lead an agency of 18,000 staffers who study and regulate food, drugs, medical devices, tobacco and more. -
Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesSunday's course takes high-speed cars right past the National Gallery of Art and three Smithsonian museums. Art experts worry about the works inside, but organizers say they don't expect damage.
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Violet Hensley, the legendary Ozarks musician and fiddle maker known as the "Whittlin' Fiddler," has died. She was 109 when she died Aug. 7. -
Taja Cheek's psychedelic project L'Rain has always been tagged as experimental. On fata morgana, she asks what separates music like hers from the mainstream. -
Secretary of State Denny Hoskins had blocked the Respect Missouri Voters initiative, saying it had too many subjects and constrained the legislature's power. -
As President Trump tries to disengage from the war he launched on Iran, Gulf allies worry about their own future with their powerful neighbor.
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NPR's Leila Fadel asks historian Bader Al-Saif about how Gulf leaders contend with President Trump's approach to Iran.
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The president said he would nominate Dr. Heidi Overton to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Some senators said they will not confirm her, saying she's unqualified and too conservative.
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The suspected launch on Thursday comes a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy. -
Siblings Cody and Kaleigh Brendle have grown up with the right to community integration. Now, they worry those protections for people with disabilities like them are being eroded. -
One of the most famous dishes across West Africa is jollof rice — fragrant rice cooked down with spices, tomatoes and meat. But which version is best? A traveling festival aims to find out. -
Maryland has one of the strictest data privacy laws in the country. But privacy advocates allege that data brokers are violating the law by selling data to police and federal immigration agencies.
