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Big Oil has now added its voice to the chorus of those who oppose the controversial “bathroom bill” that would legally require trans Texans to use the…

This week is National Nurse’s Week. In honor of the event, the personal finance website WalletHub has conducted an in-depth analysis of 2016’s Best &…

When it comes to gender equality, the United States doesn’t even rank among the top 40 countries of the world. In fact, in the recent rankings, the U.S.…

The economic website Wallethub has published its list of the best and worst US states for women to live in. Analysts compared states across 15 key…

Some well-known Texans are being talked about for top posts in a Trump administration.As The Texas Tribune reports, the names being discussed most…

Job pressures, low pay and lack of mobility force many teachers to quit soon after they begin. With that in mind, the personal finance website Wallethub…

Among economically developed countries, the United States has the seventh highest rate of child poverty. Twenty-nine percent of the children in America…

If you’re single and you live on the High Plains, the state you live in may be having a big effect on your dating life.The personal finance website…

At least 12 people, including five foreign contractors, are killed in a car bombing in Baghdad. Over the past three days, a series of attacks have killed numerous Iraqis, including a senior civil servant and a top official in the foreign ministry. The attacks illustrate the security concerns Iraq's new government faces as it prepares to assume sovereignty June 30. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt.

NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from Jerusalem that behind last month's eruption of violence over an obscure archaeological tunnel lies the bigger issue troubling the city's future: the challenge to the status quo whereby each religion respects and honors the holy places of their rival religions. That Palestinians are sensitive to each and every change in the makeup of Old Jerusalem can be explained by the fact that militant Zionists are insisting on encroaching and praying in the Muslim's holy sanctuary of Haram al Sahrif, on top of the Temple Mount.