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It remains unclear why the 25-year-old Alabama nursing student fabricated a story of a stranded toddler and why she went missing for two days.

Over the past two years, millions of Americans have flocked to exhibitions of actual human corpses, displays that are part science and part showmanship. The exhibits have been wildly successful -- and profitable for the science museums and other venues that have hosted them. Warning: Some may find the subject matter disturbing.

France's new conservative president, who worked his way up the ladder in a rise unusual in the country's political history, is offering his people the option of radical change.

Mail voting surged to record rates in the 2020 election. It dipped in 2022, but "remained higher than pre-pandemic levels," a new federal report finds.

Our eyes have been on comets since Aristotle's time; he called them "stars with hair." And now, with the end of space probe Stardust's seven-year mission to Wild 2 and back, scientists are getting their first hands-on look at one of these ancient bodies. Here, a profile of the only comet to reach Earth:

Arts organizations such as Asolo Repertory Theatre and The Sarasota Ballet are among the organizations that are being funded by these grants.

Pakistani police arrested former Prime Minister Imran Khan at his home in the city of Lahore after a court convicted him in an asset concealment case and handed him down a three-year prison sentence.

Prosecutors allege the former president and co-conspirators used lies to advance criminal conspiracies to overturn the election. Scholars say distant and recent history show how potent lies can be.

Idalia has sustained winds of 125 mph — which is a powerful Category 3 "major hurricane." The storm, which had been a Category 4 early this morning, weakened slightly just before landfall.

A Polk County Schools teachers union says as many as 15 schools in the district could be without air conditioning for the first day of school.

Lots of creepy crawly things will appear on doorsteps and fence posts for Halloween, but will they be on your dinner plate? Insects are being proposed as a cheap and environmentally friendly food source. Long accepted around the world, eating bugs is considered, well, gross to many in North America and Europe.

On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was killed on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tenn. For the next two months, the man who shot him, James Earl Ray, was able to evade the FBI during a massive worldwide manhunt. Writer Hampton Sides traces the movements of both King and Ray in his new book, Hellhound on His Trail.

Federal public defenders warn they face severe budget cuts that could require them to trim more than 10% of their current staff. That will hurt many of their low income clients.

Smith was supposed to be executed in November 2022 by lethal injection, but corrections officers failed to insert an IV properly. The U.S. Supreme Court has authorized nitrogen hypoxia in his case.

Economist Nuria Chinchilla is trying to change Spain's sleep schedule. She tells NPR's Scott Simon about her efforts to get the government to align the workday with the rest of the world.

Most plastic in the United States is not recycled and will end up in landfills and oceans, among other places.

Some companies are estimating the state will suffer billions of dollars in insured losses due to the storm, but an experts says it's much too early to determine final numbers and effects.

A federal appeals court would restrict the use of mifepristone, a pill used in medication abortions. But previous action by the Supreme Court means the status quo holds for now.

Three people have died during a night of air strikes and intense shelling across Ukraine, officials said Sunday, as Kyiv's military exchanged fire with Russian occupation forces.

Paul Hollywood shot to fame as the gimlet-eyed judge on the Great British Bake-Off. His new book is a memoir in recipes, beginning with childhood favorites and ending with special-occasion bakes.

The court unanimously dismissed on standing grounds a challenge to President Biden's groundbreaking plan to forgive some or all federal student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans.

Authorities say a man arrested earlier this month in California has been returned to Florida to face charges in the 1984 killing of a woman. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said 65-year-old Donald Santini was booked into a Florida jail early Wednesday morning on a charge of first-degree murder.

Some of the hottest global weather in recorded history is happening this week. It's likely that records will continue to fall this year.

President-elect Obama got down to business in Chicago this week. He chose Illinois Congressman Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, got his first classified intelligence briefings and faced reporters for the first time since the election.

It has been a bad day for stocks all over the world. Markets lost ground in Asia, Europe and the United States. Recession fears have spread, and investors are pulling their money from stocks at a frightening pace.