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"I never thought it would be this bad," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says of the number of U.S. states where the coronavirus numbers have worsened.

Much of Florida has loosened its coronavirus restrictions allowing beaches, malls and hair salons to reopen. But one place is still locked in: the Florida Keys.

The Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet in Jackson, Miss. — lower than feared. Flooding also hit parts of Tennessee, where one official said, "It is a chess match we're playing with Mother Nature."

A program that makes poems from our tweets / With rhyming lines and smooth iambic beats ... Ranjit Bhatnagar wrote a program to find tweets in iambic pentameter and retweet them in rhyming pairs. With NPR's Jacki Lyden, he shares some of the resulting couplets.

The federal government has charged Stewart Rhodes and 10 others with seditious conspiracy in the most serious case to emerge from its investigation into the Capitol riot.

Leslie Gelb, president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, recently returned from a 10-day tour through Iraq during which he met with Kurds, Shias and Sunnis. He speaks with Renee Montagne about his experience and what he thinks of Iraq's future.

A U.S. military official in Baghdad says coalition forces have recovered what they believe are the remains of two American soldiers who were missing in Iraq. Major Gen. William Caldwell told a news briefing in Baghdad that the bodies were found in the vicinity of Youssifiya, a town south of Baghdad where the soldiers went missing Friday.

Owen the hippo and Mzee the giant tortoise are survivors. Owen braved a tsunami, and Mzee is 130 years old. They hang out at a sanctuary in Kenya. Dr. Paula Kahumbu tells a true tale of unlikely pals.

There are few rules about heat in the nation's prison cells. As temperatures rise, advocates say the situation is becoming more and more dangerous.

Places in Iran are seeing almost de facto martial law as the government tries to shut down protests that are stretching into their fourth week. Dozens of demonstrators are said to have been killed.