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Republicans in Congress scuttled a vote following frustration over President Trump's settlement fund to pay people who claim the government persecuted them, including possible Jan. 6 rioters.

Record-breaking hailstones have been documented in recent years, with extreme stones reaching up to 6 to 7 inches in diameter falling in states like Texas and Colorado.

The Jan. 6 committee releases its final report. A major storm threatens holiday travel.

Recent anti-Syria protesters in Lebanon include some of the authors featured in an anthology called Transit: Beirut. Their highly personal, often experimental work offers glimpses of a different side of the city.

Health officials in Houston, Texas, have discovered mosquitoes carrying the virus that causes St. Louis encephalitis in seven areas of the city. NPR's Wade Goodwyn travels with one of the health department's "mosquito men" as he makes his way through Houston's extensive sewer system, trapping mosquitoes and sending them back to the lab for testing. (6:15) CORRECTION, aired on All Things Considered Sept. 6, 2001: Wade Goodwyn's report about a mosquito surveillance officer in Houston brought out the science police in the audience. Dr. Victor Sloan of Scotch Plains, N.J., writes this: "In Wade Goodwyn's excellent story on Houston's mosquito hunters, he said 'when the dry ice melts.' Melting is the act of a solid becoming liquid. Dry ice does not melt, it sublimes. That is, it goes directly from a solid to a gas, without ever becoming liquid. When I was about 10, my father tried to explain this to me. It took me years to believe him."

Declare a national emergency to overthrow the 2020 Presidential election. That's an idea in one of the documents received by a special congressional committee. The latest on investigating January 6th.

Jerry Seinfeld, Bert Kreischer and Seth Meyers will headline the National Comedy Center's annual comedy festival in Jamestown on Aug. 6-9, the center announced Thursday.

John Lansing will succeed Jarl Mohn as NPR's next CEO. Lansing is currently chief executive of the government agency that oversees Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, among others.

Here’s a look back at some culinary memories that lingered and still put a smile on my face.

Trump has run a highly unpredictable GOP campaign, and his vice presidential choice is likely to be the same. Here are some of his top prospects.