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The Big Ten and Pac-12 have canceled their football seasons this fall, but other college conferences said they're determined to play — and they believe they can do so safely.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe and Holly Anderson, co-host of the Shutdown Fullcast, discuss the unusual college football season.

The House select committee investigating the January 6 attack begin hearings in prime time this week; negotiations over gun legislation continue; PA's Democratic senate candidate has medical news.

The former president's campaign to get his vice president to overturn the election "was not just wrong," said Vice Chair Liz Cheney, a Republican, "it was illegal and unconstitutional."

An attacker with a large kitchen knife killed two people and wounded six others in stabbings along the Las Vegas Strip before being arrested Thursday, police said.

Police have identified the alleged gunman in Wednesday's shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and two of the three victims. No students were targeted.

The committee investigating the attack on the Capitol issued 100 publicly announced subpoenas to get information and compel people with knowledge about the events to tell them what they know.

California's program to house people in motels in order to get them off the street during COVID is ending. But it's unclear where the more than 6,000 people living in these facilities are headed.

An air ambulance with six people aboard crashed and then exploded on Friday evening in Philadelphia. The medical transport plane was returning a patient and her mother to Mexico. Several houses caught on fire close to the crash site. Six people on the ground were taken to the hospital with injuries.

With Carey's enduring Christmas hit, we may be looking at a record that borders on the untouchable.

While it is a traditional true crime investigation on the surface, it also delves into issues of immigration, domestic violence and failings of the criminal justice system.

Abortion protests would seem far removed from bankruptcy filings. But the two have been brought together in legislation proposed to tighten the rules for individuals declaring bankruptcy. Once again this year, that pairing of issues will mean that the bankruptcy reform will die at year's end. NPR's Julie Rovner reports on why.

Host Bob Edwards talks with radio producer Larry Josephson, about the classic comedy skits of radio personalities Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding. Josephson has reissued a CD with a sampling of the pair's sketches, in honor of Bob Elliott's 80th birthday.

Washington D.C. video store clerks Adam Robinson and Scott Mueller have had enough of utterly depressing movies winning big at the Oscars. NPR's Neda Ulaby asked the pair to give their take on this year's Oscar race.

Every year, tens of thousands of Americans go abroad to work as missionaries. It can be controversial and sometimes dangerous work, which was highlighted by today's deadly attack on American missionary health care workers in Yemen. NPR's Eric Weiner profiles a pair of Americans who work as career missionaries in the southern Philippines.

Israeli police say a pair of explosions in downtown Tel Aviv killed more than 20 people. Authorities say two suicide bombers exploded devices simultaneously at the city's former bus station. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with NPR's Richard Harris about the recipients for the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine, U.S. scientists Richard Axel and Linda Buck. The pair will be honored for their work on genes that control the human sense of smell.

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been awarded the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for certifying the 2020 presidential election after rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

NPR's Tom Gjelten reports that in Argentina, President Carlos Menem (MEN-um) continues to confound his critics. Since taking office in 1989, his government has stopped hyperinflation and put the Argentine economy on a high-growth track, mainly by selling off money-losing state industries. Menem's policy surprised many Argentines ...he campaigned for president as a follower of Juan Peron (purr-OHN), who built up the big state sector as Argentina's president fifty years ago. Now in his second term, Carlos Menem is shaking the Peronist (PAIR-oh-nist) party again, this time by challenging labor unions, the traditional base of the Peronist movement. Menem's reforms raise the question of whether Peronism (PAIR-uh-nizm) is finished in Argentina.

The child has not been charged in the shooting of Abby Zwerner, 25, a teacher at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia.

The former president says he learned Sunday that he may be charged with a federal crime by a grand jury investigating the Capitol siege. A spokesman for special counsel Jack Smith declined to comment.

The CEO/CMO of UF Health Physicians says negotiations with United are closer to reaching an agreement for how the health system will be reimbursed for Medicaid coverage, a primary obstacle.

Nearly 6 months after a fire at an immigration detention center in Ciudad Juarez killed nearly 40 migrants, survivors and families of the deceased await compensation.

The city of Gilroy, Calif., held a vigil Monday night to mourn the deaths of the three people killed by a gunman during a mass shooting at the city's Garlic Festival on Sunday.

The Supreme Court has narrowed the Justice Department's use of an obstruction law to prosecute people who rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.