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July 2016 was Earth's hottest month on record. And Arctic ice has shrunk this year almost as much as it did in 2012 — the most severe melt to date.

As part of the All Things Considered series, "The New Middle," we take a look at how the middle class has been portrayed on television.

Kubo and the Two Strings is a sprawling new fantasy film from Laika animation studios. Filmmaker Travis Knight says it's all about merging brand new technology with age-old art and craft.

The swimming critters were once common in the British countryside, but industrialization and rampaging minks have made them endangered. A new effort seeks to reintroduce them at a northern lake.

U.S. Olympic athletes who win must pay a victory tax, which forces athletes to pay taxes on both their cash winnings and the medals themselves.

The photo of the rescued boy in Syria has inspired sympathy, outrage — and donations. But will it be forgotten tomorrow?

It's the most goals ever scored in a women's water polo final, and the widest margin of victory.

Most Iowa Republicans are strong backers of Donald Trump and an Asian free trade deal that Trump opposes.

In Bill Broun's dystopian Night of the Animals, zoo-bound creatures ask the main character to let them out. "It's a kind of fulcrum between the old world and a kind of liberating cataclysm," he says.

Veronica Roth is the best-selling author of "Divergent." For our "Next Chapter" series, she talks about a relationship that consumed her life and how she finally left it behind.