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For months, starting in late 2015, a gas leak in Los Angeles spewed methane into the air. The Southern California Gas Company has agreed to reimburse local governments and mitigate the damage.

North Korea made the largest unilateral transfer of what are believed to be remains of U.S. servicemen. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Dr. John Byrd, chief scientist of the Department of Defense, about the challenge of identifying those remains.

Young women with simple pregnancies can safely ask a doctor to induce labor, a study finds. It doesn't increase their risk of needing a C-section after all and can even offer potential benefits.

Valor was one of two young eaglets in a nest at the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. The tree is monitored 24/7 by a popular webcam. He fell from the nest late last month, and died on Tuesday.

The jury's still out on whether underwear preference matters to male fertility, but men who wear briefs, or other tight options, were found to have slightly lower sperm counts in a new study.

The Trump administration's release of $195 million for the Middle Eastern nation's security spending, frozen last year over rights concerns, has left experts stunned and deeply worried.

On Wednesday in Houston, a coalition of ten states led by Texas argued in federal court that the DACA program should be temporarily halted. Three different courts have ruled the administration must keep the program.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Karen Tumlin, legal director for the National Immigration Law Center, about what Wednesday's hearing in Texas means for recipients of the program called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

After the horrific conditions in Romanian orphanages were publicized in the 1990s, there's been a movement in the aid world to shut down orphanages. But an orphanage can have a very different image.

The Trump administration has proposed a rule that would prohibit some home health workers from having union dues deducted from their paychecks. The rule would likely undercut unions' power, all agree.