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Almost all cable subscribers pay to rent a set-top box netting the industry billions a year. Chairman Tom Wheeler says ending that practice would lead to more innovation in the way we consume TV.

Numbers from the World Health Organization put Sierra Leone at the top of the list for cases of Ebola. Yusuf Mackery explains what's being done to prevent infection and raise public awareness.

The Great Galveston Storm of 1900 destroyed two-thirds of the Texas city and heavily damaged surviving structures. It remains the most deadly natural disaster and worst hurricane in U.S. history.

As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The older musicians are teaching the younger musicians through the song "Sitting on Top of the World." We hear the song as recorded by Al Jolson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Monroe and The Grateful Dead.

One year and seven surgeries after Sarah Salazar nearly died in her art classroom, she's still struggling to manage the deep physical and emotional trauma she suffered that day.

Robert talks to NPR's David Welna about the arrest of Mexico's top anti-drug official on charges that he was working with the country's top drug cartel. Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo (reh-BOY-yo) is the highest-ranking Mexican official accused of drug-related wrongdoing.

The bushy-haired former Air Force sergeant with the soothing voice rose to fame in the 1980s and '90s with his PBS show The Joy of Painting. Bob Ross died in 1995, but his popularity endures.

For the third consecutive month, border arrests top 50,000 even as the administration has announced a zero tolerance policy and sent the National Guard to the southern border.

In public testimony, the top diplomat for the U.S. in Ukraine described a conversation, heard by a member of his staff, between the president and Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the EU.

The British singer, who won American hearts for his performance at Woodstock, died of lung cancer.