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Holiday decorations outside the office of Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pa. Members of Congress compete with each other for the best displays.

Lies, betrayal and competition on the Hill as lawmakers deck the halls of Congress

The second floor of the Longworth congressional office building is taking holiday decorations to a whole new level.

Residents stand amid damaged homes following Typhoon Rai in Talisay, Cebu province, central Philippines on Saturday. The strong typhoon engulfed villages in floods that trapped residents on roofs, toppled trees and knocked out power in southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 villagers had fled to safety before the onslaught, officials said.

Desperation grows in the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Rai

Rai is one of the most powerful storms to hit the southern Philippines on record. It's displaced more than 481,000 people and killed more than 150.

Haitian migrants cross the Rio Grande on Wednesday to get food and water in Mexico, as seen from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico. The U.S. is allowing some migrants to enter the country and sending others back to Haiti.

How Haitian Migrants Are Getting To The U.S., And Where They May Go Next

U.S. border agents are allowing some Haitian migrants into the country on a temporary basis, while others are being deported or heading back over the border to Mexico.

Pamela Winn, a registered nurse by training, was pregnant when incarcerated in 2008. After a miscarriage, she was put into solitary confinement for what she was told was medical observation. That eight months in solitary scarred her for life, she says.

COVID precautions put more prisoners in isolation. It can mean long-term health woes

An estimated 300,000 people were held in solitary confinement in the U.S. at the height of the pandemic. Advocates are pushing to limit the practice, citing lasting harm to prisoners' health.

Biden reappoints Jerome Powell as Fed chair at a critical time for the economy

President Biden has tapped Jerome Powell to serve a second term as chair of the Federal Reserve as the economy faces huge challenges, including surging inflation.

Consumer Prices Jumped. Should You Worry? That's Sparking A Heated Debate

Consumer prices jumped last month as businesses struggled to keep pace with booming demand, but the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve say the uptick in inflation is likely to be temporary.

The scientist in Botswana who identified omicron was saddened by the world's reaction

He and his team were stunned by the number of mutations. They felt they'd made a contribution by alerting the world to a dangerous variant. Then came the travel bans for residents of southern Africa.

Former President Donald Trump hit many of the touchstones of his culture war, grievance-based politics at the North Carolina Republican Convention Saturday in Greenville, N.C.

Trump Returns To Campaign Trail With Election Lies And Dark Warnings

A speech Saturday night before the North Carolina GOP marks the beginning of what's expected to be a summer spree of campaigning for the former president.

A crowd gathers as Nobel laureate John Mather and Northrop Grumman engineer Scott Willoughby speak in front of a model of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope at South by Southwest on March 9, 2013.

Who gets to use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope? Astronomers work to fight bias

With the James Webb Space Telescope safely deployed, many scientists want to use it. To minimize the effect of unconscious biases, they go through a process developed for the Hubble Space Telescope.

Los Angeles Police Department officers block the street near Echo Park Lake as protesters demonstrate against the removal of a homeless encampment on March 25, 2021, in Los Angeles. Officials asked people living in tents at the park to leave. Police detained 16 journalists reporting on the night's events, arresting two and shooting two others with rubber bullets.

When police cracked down on reporters on one chaotic night in LA's Echo Park

The LAPD detained at least 16 journalists covering a protest in March 2021, a low point in a year of increasing mistrust and hostilities between police departments and the media.

Voter Websites In California And Florida Could Be Vulnerable To Hacks, Report Finds

Cyber experts told the Department of Homeland Security in July that voter registration systems in California and Florida could be vulnerable to a hack, a closely-held report obtained by NPR reveals.

Migrants are at the border checkpoint at Bruzgi, Belarus, and Kuznica, Poland, on Wednesday. They are caught in a border crisis between Belarus and its EU neighbors that began to escalate earlier this month.

Here's what it's like for migrants trapped between Belarus and Poland

Thousands of migrants are camped along the border of Belarus and Poland, trapped between the countries. EU officials accuse Belarus of luring them across the border.

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