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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis prevailed on a number of policy decisions in the first year of the Trump administration, but his positions have been rejected many times in the second year.

For all the love pouring out for pop icon Michael Jackson, there are also those who feel conflicted about his legacy. Teresa Wiltz, a senior culture writer for The Root, says Jackson's artistry became eclipsed by his increasingly bizarre behavior.

The cultural legacy of OJ Simpson. Ukraine's parliament adopts a law to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. The interpreter for the LA Dodgers' star player is charged with bank fraud.

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, residents are voting in elections that some hope will lead to restoration of the territory's statehood, which ended when it became a federally governed territory in 2019.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

More states than ever are gearing up to vote on abortion rights this fall, including Republican-led Missouri. There, voters could show the issue isn't a down-ballot Democratic dream everywhere.

Is the future of artificial intelligence in video games playing out in a cyberpunk ramen bar? Tech companies would like you to think so, but game writers aren't so sure.

Armed with just a name and a photograph, Annette Vega spent years looking for her biological father. The family story would go from Puerto Rico to Florida to New York.

The antiviral drug is prescribed to those at risk of severe disease. It's been credited with reducing hospitalizations. But then there's the "Paxlovid rebound."

Commentator Frank Deford is tickled by NBC's decision to call the home of the Winter Olympics by its indigenous pronunciation, Torino.

A Navy sailor who died in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor was identified last year using DNA from relatives and has now been buried with full military honors in a family plot in western Kentucky.

"In previous years, we've seen regionalized driver shortages, but nothing to the extent that we're seeing today," one researcher told NPR.

No. 1 seeds UConn, UCLA, Texas and South Carolina are in the Final Four for the second straight season, just the second time the same teams have reached the sport's final weekend in consecutive years.

The president's campaign may be raising lots of money off impeachment, but it may not be firing up rural voters as Republicans anticipated. We talk about that and six other lessons from the elections.

The red-hot Knicks are going home, two wins away from an NBA championship that the capital of the world has been waiting to see for generations.

They're the latest to eliminate all late fees. All library card holders have had their accounts cleared of any prior late fees or fines.

In some towns in India, a visitor to the post office who's squinting at fine print might be asked: Do you want an eye test?

Russia is losing creative talent. Some of its biggest artists have immigrated to Israel this year to rebuild their careers and safely voice their conscience about the war in Ukraine.

Mao Zedong built China's Communist revolution on the back of the country's impoverished peasants, and now Chinese leader Xi Jinping wants a new economic revolution to take root in the countryside.

Over one-third of the food produced in the U.S. goes uneaten, harming people's wallets and the climate. Here are some steps you can take in your supermarket and kitchen to cut back on waste.

In southwest Virginia, Galax was once a traditional small-town mountain community. It now has one of the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the state.

The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team celebrated their World Cup win with a ticker-tape parade Wednesday in New York City. It's only the second time a women's sports team has been given that honor.

A 13-year-old Indian one-horn rhino recently escaped from his enclosure at Omaha's Henry Doorley Zoo and Aquarium. There were hundreds of visitors that had to shelter in place.

Lothar Weimann, 68, protested that he felt fine, failing to recognize the life-and-death stakes he was experiencing. His 7-year-old German Shepherd knew differently and alerted a neighbor.

Many experts warn there will be more infections on the downslope of the omicron surge, but we're on the path to the virus becoming endemic — and that should mean fewer interruptions to daily life.