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Flamboyant fitness personality Richard Simmons has died. His popular "Sweatin' To The Oldies" VHS videos in the 1980s encouraged all kinds of people to exercise and made him a beloved cultural figure.

If Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is confirmed, it would let Gov. Robert Bentley — who has faced scandal in the past year — appoint a new senator. Reporter John Sharp of AL.com explains.

Decertifying a police officer means taking away their badge and gun for good. More than a dozen states have enacted or strengthened paths to decertification but It’s still a relatively rare process.

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is the ultimate immigrant success story and, with an overall approval rating of about two-thirds of residents in her state, she's arguably the most popular Republican governor in the country. But that popularity doesn't always extend to Hispanics.

Members of the House Financial Services Committee were hoping assistant treasurer Edith O'Brien would shed some light on the actions of the firm's CEO, ex-New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine.

Many of Helene’s effects are individual and heartbreaking, such as the deaths of children, grandparents and others. But the storm's impact is also so outsized that it’s clearly visible from space.

If you had any doubts about how good TV is these days, just take a trip back 50 years to see what America was watching in 1968.

Trolls are already going after candidates for the 2020 presidential election. NPR's Michel Martin talks to Kelly Jones, who keeps an eye on suspicious social media activity for Storyful.

The long-serving mayor of Rhode Island's capital city spent more than four years in prison on felony corruption charges and was forced to resign — twice. And now he's running again for mayor.

The undefeated Michigan Wolverines meet the undefeated Washington Huskies in the College Football Playoff national championship game Monday in Houston. It will be either team's first title in decades.

Mo Yan was one of three writers favored to win. He is perhaps best known in the West as the author of Red Sorghum, which was made into a film. He is only the second Chinese writer to win the Nobel — the other is poet Gao Xingjian, who won in 2000.

Senegal awaits the results of the first round of Sunday's contentious presidential election. Unofficial tallies indicate a possible runoff between the sitting president and a former political ally. The vote was preceded by deadly violence — sparked by opposition to a third term bid by the West African nation's octogenarian leader.

There's new controversy over the New York Police Department's intelligence-gathering tactics after documents surfaced detailing information on Newark mosques and Muslim-owned businesses. Activists see it as an overly broad investigation of law-abiding Muslims, while local officials are upset by the department's reach outside New York City.

With the election over, attention in Washington has turned to the nation's debt and deficit challenges — most immediately $600 billion worth of expiring tax breaks and automatic spending cuts. Both the president and congressional leaders are signaling a willingness to work together to avoid a fiscal disaster.

It's been nearly two months since Sgt. Robert Bales was accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians. After that, U.S. forces essentially stopped carrying out operations in the area of the massacre. As a result, the Taliban has been able to plant more explosives.

Big name medal winners in high-profile Olympic sports can count on support from sponsors. But not so for lesser known athletes. That's forced some of them to take an unorthodox approach to fundraising.

Succession, Beef and The Bear took home big wins in the major categories at the 75th annual Emmys.

The U.S. is responding to Houthi rebels who've attacked ships in the Red Sea. The exchange is seen as a widening of the Mideast conflict because Houthis say they're responding to the Israel-Hamas war.

A student at a rural Maine elementary school decided to start wearing suits to school. The idea took off and led to Dapper Wednesday.

Sports Illustrated has announced that it's laying off a significant amount — if not all — of the News Guild-represented workers on Friday, prompting responses from the union.

If residents of countries including Cuba, Venezuela and China don’t register properties by the Jan. 31 deadline, they can be hit with $1,000 per day in property liens — or potentially have their property seized.

A report by House Democrats documents $7.8 million in payments from at least 20 foreign governments to Trump's businesses during his presidential term.

Though deemed a hoax, a bomb threat emailed to numerous state government offices across the country underscores the vulnerability of state legislatures to this kind of disruption.

Dr. Kent Brantly and missionary Nancy Writebol have gone through "a rigorous course of treatment and thorough testing," Emory University Hospital's Dr. Bruce Ribner says.

Aftershocks are rattling survivors' nerves and making the recovery even more challenging. In one district, 400,000 people were affected by the quake and more than 4,000 homes are now unsafe.