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Restarting stalled negotiations on a new farm bill is on the Congressional agenda when lawmakers return to Washington Monday.

President Obama's pick to run the Federal Reserve went to Capitol Hill Thursday for her confirmation hearing. Janet Yellen defended the Fed's ongoing stimulus programs. Critics say it's time for the Fed to start moving back to a more neutral approach.

A dog-walking app named "Wag" just got a $300 million investment from Saudi Arabia. The big business is increasingly crowding out the independent dog walking companies that used to dominate.

Steve Inskeep talks to Andrew Weiss of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about Russian President Putin touting a new line of nuclear-capable weapons with "virtually unlimited range."

The FBI and the U.S. Postal Service were investigating the origin of suspicious packages that have been sent to elections officials in more than 15 states. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Eugene and Dan Levy hosted the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards Sunday night. Check out the award winners marked in bold.

The signature totals posted Friday on the Division of Elections website showed that the largest number of valid signatures, 54,277, had been collected in Congressional District 14 in Hillsborough and Pinellas.

Winter weather is causing havoc as wide swaths of the Midwest have been walloped with heavy snow and fierce winds.

When Mitt Romney said he would cut PBS funding in the first presidential debate — and singled out Big Bird, whom he said he liked a lot — he perhaps inadvertently introduced the befeathered yellow children's icon smack into the center of political debate. President Obama approved a cable-only commercial dinging Romney for going after Sesame Street rather than Wall Street, but Romney appears to think he has a winning hand — castigating the president for focusing on a profitable educational puppet empire rather than big issues, like terrorism in the Arab world.

The new fee is intended to encourage the oil and gas industry to lower emissions of methane and thereby avoid paying.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jack Lobel of Voters of Tomorrow, a nonprofit, Democrat-aligned group, seeking to mobilize Gen Z voters to engage with politicians on issues that matter to them.

It was a somber moment remembering the 23,000 people killed in Gaza following the Hamas attack on Israel which killed 1,200 people last October.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with New Hampshire Secretary of State David Scanlan about his state's upcoming primary election. The state has been the first to hold a primary for more than 100 years .

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

Supporters of Israel flooded into Washington, D.C. Tuesday. They came to speak out against Hamas and the October attack on Israel.

Following this week's fiery Japan Airlines plane collision on a runway in Tokyo, NPR's A Martinez talks passenger safety with Sara Nelson, president of the Association of Flight Attendants.

Ted Cruz hopes support from Scott Walker and the state's influential talk radio contingent can help him topple Trump. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders hopes the state's progressive bent bends for him.

Hispanics are disproportionately enrolled in community colleges and two-year schools. Experts say this partially explains why they are much less likely than other groups to attain bachelor's degrees.

The gap in earnings between young people who have a college degree and those who don't has continued to widen over the past several decades. And while total student loan debt in the U.S. continues to rise, millennials say a college degree is still worth it.

UK's parliament votes Tuesday on revisions to a controversial plan to deport undocumented migrants to Rwanda. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces revolt from hardliners in his own party.

A year-long tribute to the hundreds of thousands of Haitian migrants arriving in South Florida over the last 50 years was concluded with a moving ceremony in Little Haiti this week, at a pivotal time for the Biden humanitarian migrant parole program.

A former church in Ohio houses what's believed to be the world's largest privately owned collection of Christmas movie memorabilia.

Venezuela released 10 Americans, 21 Venezuelans — and extradited the man behind a brazen bribery scheme. In exchange, President Biden granted clemency to an an ally of leader Nicolas Maduro.

A lot is changing in the media landscape. The industry's troubles this year offer clues about the most important questions companies will face next year.

Starting on New Year’s Day, shell companies and LLCs that do business in the US will have to fully disclose who is behind them and who actually owns the assets.