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Of the 1,550 hours of study currently required in Iowa for a cosmetology license, 960 must be devoted to practical ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

The FDA is the latest federal agency scrambling to meet the Trump administration’s return-to-office mandate. Monday was the ...

A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.