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At age 20, Janie Bush gave birth to a daughter with a life-threatening condition and placed her for adoption. After 12 years, Janie reconnected with Tracey Bush, who has since made a full recovery.

Mexican authorities say nine members of a family were ambushed and killed in a rural area of northern Mexico. The family is part of a Mormon community that has lived there for decades.

The six-week battle to retake the city from insurgents was the fiercest during the Iraq War. Almost 100 Americans died; 600 others were injured. Veterans commemorated the anniversary on Friday.

Across the country, many voter initiatives were on the ballots. Minimum wage questions were on ballots in five states. In addition, three states and the District of Columbia voted on marijuana issues.

In Pennsylvania, Montgomery County will have participants on both sides of former President Trump's impeachment trial. One is a defense lawyer the other is a House impeachment manager.

Legislation would bar tech companies from blocking posts regarding political candidates

Evans, killed in an attack earlier this month, is only the sixth U.S. Capitol Police officer to have died in the line of duty.

The Minneapolis Police chief, the fourth officer to witness for the prosecution, testified in the trial of Derek Chauvin, who is charged with murder and manslaughter in the killing of George Floyd.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs went into the title game undefeated. But it was the Baylor Bears who emerged victorious, beating Gonzaga, 86-70.

Ingenuity is a tissue box sized helicopter that hovered in the super thin Martian atmosphere, took some pictures and landed safely.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Maria Lehman of the American Society of Civil Engineers about the decline of infrastructure across the U.S.

American Airlines and Dell are directly criticizing Republican-sponsored legislation in the state legislature that would curb expanded voter access.

The pandemic led to a travel decline, and airlines put thousands of planes in storage. With vaccinations rising and interest in flying surging, getting those planes out of storage is difficult.

Demonstrators demanded the release from prison of Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny, who has been on a hunger strike for three weeks. The marches swept across dozens of cities.

Namibia's president says disparate global rates of vaccination represent "COVID apartheid." When you compare percent of people vaccinated in the most populous countries, you can understand his ire.

President Emmanuel Macron, in a televised address to the nation, said he was left with no choice as deaths approach 100,000 and the country's hospitals are overwhelmed.

The global shortage of chips could hurt production of iPads and Macs, costing Apple $3 billion to $4 billion in revenue, in what is the latest example of a company being hit by supply constraints.

Federal investigators in Manhattan executed a search warrant on Rudy Giuliani's apartment as part of a probe into the former New York City mayor's activities involving Ukraine, his attorney told NPR.

Hundreds of workers were told to get the center near the city of Wuhan built in under a week as authorities cope with the new viral pneumonia that has killed 41 people and infected over 1,000 others.

NPR's A Martinez talks to journalist Sanosi Adam about Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok resigning a little over a month after he was ousted in a coup by the country's military and then was reinstated.

Police said two people who were wounded remain in a life-threatening condition after the attack on Saturday. Passengers reported scenes of panic and chaos ,with many running through the carriages.

In 1968, Nathaniel Estes started his own plumbing business in Denver's Five Points neighborhood. As his company grew, he became a pillar of the local Black community. His son, Eddie Estes, and daughter, Cathy Lane, remember their now 94-year-old father, and what it was like growing up as the plumber's kids.

Health officials have confirmed that four people in South Florida appear to have contracted Zika from local mosquitoes. They're the first cases of local transmission on the U.S. mainland.

The Biden administration's student loan relief program, SAVE, is set to reduce payments this summer for many borrowers, but there are legal challenges looming.

There's a new Guinness World Record holder for how fast someone can do math. Aaryan Shukla -- who has been dubbed "the human calculator" can solve complex problems in his head in seconds.