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Dust in the Rocky Mountain snow can cause elevated water runoff, and greater opportunities for forest fires.

After years of being in the red, the state of Connecticut now has a surplus of more than $1 billion because of higher than expected income tax...

On Tuesday, a statue of J. Marion Sims, known as the "father of modern gynecology," was removed from New York's Central Park. NPR's Michel Martin talks with historian Vanessa Gamble about Sims' experiments on enslaved black women.

An FDA advisory committee last week urged approval of a drug containing cannabidiol to treat a form of epilepsy. Other scientists wonder if CBD might ease anxiety or other disorders, too.

The man got stuck trying to rescue the cat. The fire department rescued the man and then the cat. A battalion chief in Norfolk, Va., stressed that cat rescues are "not something we normally do."

Also: The Paris bombing suspect is convicted in a separate Brussels attack; Mike Pompeo's Secretary of State nomination is drawing opposition; and a man once mauled by a bear survives a shark attack.

The CIA director faces a narrow path through a closely divided Senate, but Republicans are confident he has the votes to win confirmation on the floor later this week.

Dylan McWilliams was surfing in Hawaii recently and was bitten by a shark. Previously he suffered a bear bite and a rattlesnake bite. McWilliams is a survival training instructor.

Using historical data and estimates from deep-sea trawls that drag nets along the ocean floor, researchers estimate that millions of tons of catch have gone unreported in the last 50 years.

President Trump and the first lady host their first state dinner Tuesday night. It's for French President Macron and his wife. History shows that state dinners are high pressure and can be fraught.