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NPR's Martha Raddatz reports that retiring CIA Director John Deutch appeared on Capitol Hill today to give his assessment of national security issues. He predicted on Wednesday that within three years North Korea would either be at war with South Korea, collapse as a state or the region will be on the road to reunification.

the long-term financial stability of the Medicare system. Congress is about to take up President Clinton's proposal, as well as competing proposals by both Democrats and Republican on Capitol Hill.

- When President Clinton included $5 billion in federal funds for the repair of the nation's crumbling schools, administration officials thought they were addressing an obvious educational need. But with the administration's educational spending propisals about to be introduced on Capitol Hill, NPR's Vicky Que reports a wall of Republican opposition is forming.

which holds Congress accountable to the same labor and workplace regulations as the rest of the country. But when the efforts of the Capital Hill police force to unionize met opposition, the sincerity of the Act came into question.

Firefighters are battling a wildfire in the heart of Los Angeles. The blaze began Tuesday in Griffith Park and has already destroyed hundreds of acres in the hills above Hollywood.

Two Federal Aviation Administration employees are blowing the whistle on Capitol Hill on Thursday. They say the agency has gotten too cozy with the companies at the expense of passenger safety.

Marian Engström always had a few nagging suspicions about her boyfriend Tate. Before he died suddenly, she wondered about that faraway empty look in…

For more than a century, California's Native American tribes were largely banned from doing traditional burning of the landscape. Now, they're restoring that practice to help prevent fires.

When anthropologist Renato Rosaldo went to live with a Philippine tribe that was known for beheading people, he couldn't grasp the emotion that fueled this violence. Then his wife suddenly died.

Amy Adams plays a professor tasked with talking to eight-tentacled aliens in Denis Villeneuve's new film. Critic David Edelstein says Arrival is a strange and tantalizing puzzle.