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German movie "All Quiet on the Western Front" won seven prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards. American Austin Butler and Australian Cate Blanchett took top acting awards.

White oak trees with no visible insects or fungus are dying on ravines and ridge tops across the Midwest - in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. Foresters, who agree that climate change has played a role in the trees' rapid decline, can do little more than cut down the majestic trees and harvest them quickly to beat the rot. There is hope that a new test may help solve the mystery of the epidemic called rapid white oak mortality.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Columbia University history professor Matthew Connelly about the history of "misplaced" classified documents.

TikTok's top executive will have to defend the app against allegations it shares U.S. users data with the Chinese government at a Thursday hearing, as the government weighs limiting or banning it.

Justice Department report concludes that political partisan considerations played a part in the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006, but stops short of recommending criminal charges against top officials.

Francis has now named nine batches of new cardinals in his 10-year papacy. Increasingly, the men who will vote for whoever succeeds Francis are churchmen supportive of his values.

In the 1840s, two British crews vanished while seeking a passage through the ice at the top of the world. Paul Watson became "obsessed with the mystery" and tells the story in his new book Ice Ghosts.

President-elect Barack Obama has named former White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta as his choice to head the CIA. He also picked retired Adm. Dennis Blair to be director of national intelligence, which oversees all intelligence operations.

Health insurance is turning into a top-tier issue in this year's presidential campaign. We asked the presidential hopefuls about their own coverage — and that of their staffs. Not everyone was talking.

Keggie Carew grew up with her father's stories of parachuting into the jungle and working as a spy in Burma. She wasn't sure how much to believe until she started researching her new book, Dadland.