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A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

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Americans might not be as divided as they often believe, according to a wide-ranging group of scholars and thought leaders who crunched thousands of data points for a new “State of the States” report.

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Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Immerse yourself in the most compelling and consequential stories from around the globe. The world is changing in big ways every day. State of the World from NPR takes you where the news is happening ...

What’s in a state name? Place names can tell you a lot about a location, and that’s doubly true of state name origins. Every state name has a story, and as for how the states were named and why, those ...

Do you know what people from each state are called? Find out the official nicknames for the residents of each state—and the stories behind them. So are these nicknames actually official? In most cases ...