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A student at a rural Maine elementary school decided to start wearing suits to school. The idea took off and led to Dapper Wednesday.

Aftershocks are rattling survivors' nerves and making the recovery even more challenging. In one district, 400,000 people were affected by the quake and more than 4,000 homes are now unsafe.

Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol have gone through "a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing," Emory University Hospital's Dr. Bruce Ribner says.

A U.K. judge ruled against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, finding that the paper used phone hacking to gather information unlawfully on the Duke of Sussex.

A Navy investigation into the suicide of a sailor on the USS Roosevelt reveals a toxic culture aboard the carrier.

This year, six countries have managed to eliminate the threat of at least one of the diseases on the WHO's list of "neglected tropical diseases."

The death toll in a fire that engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia rose Friday to nine. One person remained missing, according to forensic police.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with IRS Commissioner John Koskinen about the state of e-tax hacks.

Political unrest has broken out in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and other Arab countries. Social media and governmental policies are getting most of the credit for spurring the turmoil, but there's another factor at play.

Jobs have become one of the most important barometers in assessing the president's performance, and the latest report shows that, in some ways, the economy has slipped backward. The anemic economic recovery is taking a political toll on the president, amplifying his other challenges.