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Kami Rita Sherpa first climbed to the top of the world's highest mountain in 1994. He has climbed Everest nearly every year since the 1990s — sometimes more than once in a single season.

Erik Prince, the founder of security firm, Blackwater USA, is before a House oversight committee Tuesday on Capitol Hill. The hearing offers a rare public glimpse at the media-shy Prince.

More state control of public schools is on the horizon.

Consumer prices rose 3.2% in July from a year ago, up slightly from the 3% annual rise see in June — but still within analyst expectations

Melissa Block, one of two NPR correspondents who were in China at the time the earthquake struck, visited a school Monday where hundreds of children are feared dead. She recounts the scene where dozens of families, "heads bowed in unspeakable pain," sat with young, lifeless victims.

Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., respected as one of the nation's lead scholars, was arrested last week on his porch in Cambridge, Mass., after authorities mistook him for reported a burglar, described to police as a black male. But although Gates presented identification as a resident of the home, he was still taken into custody. Charles Ogletree, Gates' attorney, discusses the case and why his client believes he was racially profiled.

House Oversight Committee Republicans plan to hold the first hearing on an impeachment inquiry into President Biden on Thursday, Sept. 28.

The Trump administration has ordered several coal plants to keep operating past their planned retirement, part of a larger effort to boost the coal industry. Two Colorado utilities are pushing back.

As America celebrates its 248th birthday, planning is already underway for the celebration of its 250th. NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rosie Rios, of the planning commission, America250.

Maine's Democratic secretary of state removed former President Donald Trump from the state's presidential primary ballot. An Israeli airstrike killed at least 20 Palestinians in southern Gaza.