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A government group recommends elephant hunting resume within limits, and also calls for the animals to be slaughtered for meat used in pet food production.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks to Stimson Center South Asia Director Sameer Lalwani about the escalating conflict between Pakistan and India after Pakistan said it shot down two Indian fighter jets.

After more than one hundred years of population instability, the lake sturgeon may be on its way back to the Maumee River and Lake Erie. Saturday, The Toledo Zoo and other organizations released 3,000 baby lake sturgeon into the Maumee River. Hundreds of people celebrated at a riverside release party, including Emma Johnson, whose biology class pulled together $25 to sponsor a fish. “When we found out about the event, [our biology teacher] said, ‘everyone bring in a dollar, we’re buying a sturgeon!’” said Johnson. “Everyone got super excited.”

Here are your morning headlines for Thursday, September 6: Smucker Co. completes $375M sale; Akron's West Point Market to shut down; Purdue Pharma to...

Arthur Ashkin, a U.S. physicist won for work with optical tweezers and Gérard Mourou of France and Donna Strickland of Canada won for generating high-intensity ultra-short optical pulses.

A new California law mandates that the state move to 100 percent clean energy for electricity in the state by 2045. But getting rid of fossil fuel power will be a challenge.

After saying on social media that the incident "did happen," a former classmate of Christine Blasey Ford tells NPR she does not have firsthand knowledge of it.

A second Roman Catholic Diocese in Ohio plans by the end of October to release its list of priests who have been removed from parishes because of sexual…

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh faces personal questions at Thursday's Senate hearing. But 20 years ago, he was urging tough and personal questioning in the President Clinton investigation.

Ebola has been spreading throughout an eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for more than two and a half months. An emergency committee of the WHO is meeting Wednesday to advise.