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The U.S. embassy in Baghdad has a staff of 16,000. It's the biggest of its kind in the world.

Gardeners: Take heed. An updated plant map shows that the United States is getting warmer. That means spring planting may come earlier and some plants can tolerate new northern latitudes.

The Alaskan city just had its hottest and driest June ever, with average daily temperatures 5 degrees above normal. Crews are also battling wildfires across the state.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday revealed a bit more about his tax history, telling reporters: "I never paid less than 13 percent" in the past 10 years. The Obama campaign's response: "Prove it."

A Norwegian organization says that two seismic networks it oversees saw an explosion at the war-torn Kakhovka dam in Ukraine around the time it failed.

In this week's StoryCorps, a woman remembers growing up in the same apartment building, where her grandmother lived.

Commentator Judy Muller tries out a pedometer and becomes preoccupied with counting her steps.

As President Obama spends his first 100 days in office, NPR is launching a project called "100 Days: On the Road in Troubled Times." NPR's David Greene will spend most of the next hundred days roaming the U.S. and, with help from listeners, relaying stories about the recession. Greene kicks off the tour in frigid northern Michigan.

The State Department and the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab release new information about Belarus's "complicity in and support for" Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children.

The State Department and the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab release new information about Belarus' "complicity in and support for" Russia's abduction of Ukrainian children.