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As Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gives a House panel his side of U.S. attorney firings, his answers stay the same. But questions from the House are not as harsh as those he faced at the Senate.

The state received the results from 58,779 coronavirus tests Monday, and 4.99% of them were positive.

President Obama made an unannounced stop in Baghdad on Tuesday as he returned from his European trip. It's Obama's first war-zone visit as president.

Forty years after Warren County, N.C., residents marched to a landfill to try to stop dump trucks, the EPA is creating a new office charged with advancing environmental justice.

“A Beautiful Day InThe Neighborhood," the Hollywood film based on the life of Mr. Rogers and starring Tom Hanks opens this weekend.What many don't know is…

The hurricane dumped more than 2 feet of rain in some areas of the island. The rain and flooding have left a soggy mess across many homes and weary residents are starting to clean up.

NPR's Mia Venkat explains to All Things Considered host Scott Detrow who the internet has been obsessed with this week.

If you need to accomplish anything major in the near future, stay away from The Woman in White. This engaging crime novel will have you shunning friends and forgetting to reapply sunscreen.

New reports from the Pew Hispanic Center conclude that low-income Latino students are the most segregated, ill-served group in the country's public high schools. The reports detail high school conditions for Hispanic students in the United States.

At least three people were killed and others injured when an Amtrak train struck a dump truck in rural Missouri.

has brought to the White House as First Lady and the difficulty some people have had in accepting her unprecedented approach to the role.

A very rare white giraffe has been photographed in Africa. Alex Chadwick talks with Wildlife Conservation Society researcher Charles Foley about his sighting in Tanzania.

Just in time for the holidays... Barney, George and Laura Bush's Scottish terrier, co-stars in A Very Beazley Christmas, the fourth White House holiday video featuring the first presidential pet and the first featuring Miss Beazley, the new Scottish terrier at the executive mansion. Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard muses on whether this is must-see sequel, or a total dog.

Ehud Olmert, Israel's new prime minister, meets President Bush at the White House. Olmert is seeking support for his plan to make more unilateral withdrawals from the West Bank. He has said he intends to set Israel's final borders by 2010.

In a new book, the former Sex Pistol — better known as Johnny Rotten — collects the lyrics to every song he's written over a provocative 40-year career.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks reporter Anshel Pfeffer, author of the biography "Bibi," about what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will want from this week's visit to the White House.

The president visited the supermarket where last weekend's deadly shooting took place, then forcefully denounced white supremacy and the racist "Replacement" theory that inspired the shooter.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia and what Gulf leaders are seeking.

The debut novel of Robin Sloan, a former Twitter and Current TV employee, tells the thoughtful, magical story of Clay, a worker in a mysterious literary emporium. Aside from the occasional groaner insight, the buoyant narrative demonstrates Sloan's gift of charismatic prose.

Monday night is Oscar Night. Filmaker and commentator Joe Queenan has seen the nominees and says that there isn't anything that stands out this year because all films are so similar, except one, that is... "Mr. Holland's Opus". And Queenan is very disturbed by the selection of this film.

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is about to set out to Washington D.C., where he'll meet President Obama Friday and, next week, address a joint session of Congress. His trip comes as Israel's under growing pressure, thanks partly to the Arab Spring. The Palestinians' campaign for statehood has new momentum — and now, with Fatah and Hamas united again, they're planning to seek recognition from the U.N. in September. Netanyahu will use the mission to try to counter this — particularly by denouncing the inclusion of Hamas in a future Palestinian government.

A flea market in Manatee County called Mr. G’s — you might’ve heard of it or seen it before — has been a staple for the Hispanic population for a couple decades now. But that’s changing with recent immigration crackdowns. We’re talking about that, plus some events in the Tampa Bay area to get you through the week. But first, the news.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports on a WTO ruling that the U.S. levied unfair duties on Japanese steel imports. U.S. attorneys had argued that Japan was dumping cheap steel in American markets, causing undue hardship on the its steel industry.

Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department said the Mississippi officers "caused harm to the entire community who feel that they can't trust the police officers who are supposed to serve them."

One of the most celebrated directors of the past 60 years, Martin Scorsese, is the subject of a new multi-part documentary on Apple TV+ called "Mr. Scorsese."