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Wednesday's meeting is the first by a Korean leader in 12 years. This year marks the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-Korea alliance — both see it as vital to addressing tensions in Asia and beyond.

Democrats currently control city hall in 90 percent of the nation's largest cities. But not too many years ago, Republicans had a pretty good chance of winning big-city mayoral races.

Our weekly education news roundup: Trump administration unveils its 2018 budget proposal; DeVos talks school choice in Indianapolis, then faces a grilling from lawmakers.

NPR's Noel King speaks to Barry Jenkins, director of the new Amazon series — The Underground Railroad — based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana about what's in the infrastructure bill and how it addresses global warming.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Ukrainian politician Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze about Ukraine's relationship with the world, which she and many others are counting on as Russia threatens to invade.

They were the women's tennis champions of their generation. Now, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova open up about friendship, cancer and retirement in the documentary Chris & Martina: The Final Set.

Veterinarians have suicide rates of more than double that of the general population. One group is building an online community to give advice and help out when stress adds up.

The proposal would overhaul roads, transit, utilities, Internet access and more in the name of creating jobs. It's also intended to combat climate change, racial inequality and competition from China.

GE announced it's breaking into three. Meanwhile, tech companies continue to take over a wider swath of industries.

With prime-time coverage and more competitors than ever before, the Tokyo Paralympic Games have a number of "firsts."

The study of more than 40,000 pregnancies found that vaccination status had practically no impact on whether a child was born prematurely or smaller or less developed than expected.

NBC Sports officials say their plan of covering the Olympics from its Stamford, Conn., facility is a similar strategy used to cover the delayed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics last year.

The man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens more in a shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.

The singer/poet/actor/activist's newest opus is another slice of genre-agnostic, cultural agitprop inspired by a fictional miner-turned-hacker in the African nation of Burundi.

Those experts, along with another local environmental advocate, will lead a panel discussion moderated by Suncoast Searchlight on April 15 at The Bay Park.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns on Sunday praised the man's actions, calling it "the most unbelievable scene."

Scheinman is an in-demand violinist who's appeared with Aretha Franklin, Bill Frisell and Lou Reed. She also plays classical music with string quartets and orchestras, and has released many albums of instrumental jazz. But her latest album, Jenny Scheinman, features her singing.

Senate lawmakers are working to forge a compromise on President Obama's economic stimulus plan. Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee talks about what GOP lawmakers want to make the measure more palatable.

Born in South Korea, raised in Oklahoma, Danny Bowien was an adult when he taught himself to make Chinese food. That DIY vibe to his cooking has made him a rising star. Now he's written a cookbook.

"You're never going to be completely comfortable with it," says mortician and author Caitlin Doughty. "But it's an important process." Smoke Gets In Your Eyes is her new memoir.

Now that the Senate has passed a hotly debated health care bill, Congress is headed to the next step: House-Senate negotiations in January to try to hammer out a final version. Here's where things stand and how you might be affected.

The program has already graduated 22 teachers in more than two years.

One of Agatha Christie's last novels apparently contains not only a messy plot, but signs of undiagnosed Alzheimer's.

Sea-level rise is so acute in South Florida that local governments are eyeing hundreds of millions in spending to mitigate floodwaters. But wealthy foreign investors don't seem fazed.