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Rescue efforts continue in the southwest of Haiti, the country hardest-hit by last weekend's earthquake. A shortage of physicians is inhibiting efforts to treat the injured.

The 2014 midterm election campaigns are almost over — all $3.7 billion worth of them. Most of that money was spent on television advertising.

The nation's economy has been rebuilding since the recession ended in 2009, and in this election, the economy was a central issue from the beginning. Unemployment stands at 7.9 percent — slightly higher than when President Obama took office. In the end, the president handily rolled to re-election vowing to complete the country's recovery.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper says his home email and phone accounts have been hacked. CIA Director John Brennan's private accounts were targeted in October. What lessons can be learned?

President Obama issued a proclamation making April 12 "Equal Pay Day." NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Harvard economics professor Claudia Goldin about what's behind the pay gap between men and women.

The Pentagon will admit women to all its combat positions, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Thursday. The policy change drops the last major barrier to equal service in the military.

The buildings are in the tsunami zone, meaning they'd likely be washed away in the event of a massive earthquake and tsunami. Seismologists say there's a 37 percent chance of a major quake along the West Coast in the next fifty years — the kind of quake that hit Japan in 2011.

With just days to go before the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, a look at how the 20 year old war began and ended - with the militant Taliban in power, and terrorist suicide attacks.

The Democrats convention comes right on the heels of the Republican meeting in Tampa last week. Democrats are taking full advantage of the traditional allocation of conventions where the party in power goes last.

The conference finals are underway in the National Hockey League playoffs. In the East, the New York Rangers will face the New Jersey Devils Monday. In the West, the Los Angeles Kings have won Game 1 — beating the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2.