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A man accused of killing five people this week is believed to have authored online novels that name his real-life victims. The writings are part of a police investigation into the suspect's motive.

After losing two patients, one after another, Alicia Sgroi wrote an essay about the experience in the American Journal of Nursing. Her essay is titled "What a Time to Become a Nurse."

A separate trial will follow to determine what Teva will have to pay in the case, in which New York state and two Long Island counties took on a swath of drug companies.

The attack affects several of its systems, including how employees track their paid time off and how they get paid, according to the company.

Some items are in short supply, prices are rising and deals aren't as good this Black Friday. But with widespread vaccinations, shoppers have returned to malls in droves, promising record spending.

President Biden highlighted the strength of the U.S. economy Tuesday afternoon, while also addressing rising prices. The administration is trying to lower gasoline prices, a major driver of inflation.

Thousands have opened their mail to find packets of seeds. Is it a scam? Is it an alien plot? NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Darci Portie of Iowa, La., who received the mystery seeds.

After a little more than five hours debating the charges, the jury went home for the night without reaching a verdict.

The bill impacts grades K – 5, ages one representative referred to as “moldable and sensitive.”

At a White House event with Breyer, President Biden said it was his intention is to name a nominee to replace him by the end of February.

As coronavirus cases and pediatric hospitalizations surge in the U.S., the majority of U.S. schools are staying open for in-person learning.

Several people who testified in favor of the bill advocated for the removal of books that they said contained sexually explicit content or material that was not age-appropriate.

Check fraud has spiked in the U.S. as thieves use age-old tricks to swindle Americans out of their money and then sell bogus checks on the darknet, a monitoring group has found.

Taufatofua made headlines as Tonga's bare-chested flag bearer at the last three opening ceremonies. He's missing the 2022 Games to help his country recover from January's deadly tsunami.

Don Lessem was the dinosaur adviser for the first Jurassic Park, a job he says sounds more impressive than it was. His real big-dinosaur break happened years later, thanks to a blurry photo of a bone.

Sea shanties, the word "cheugy," feta pasta and "RushTok" were all fleeting internet obsessions over the past year. But what do such "garbage trends" say about our cultural condition?

The businessman, the first Republican to hold the office in nearly a decade, took the oath alongside Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears. The pair surprised Democrats when they swept office in November.

The devastating typhoon that ripped through the Philippines before Christmas left a path of destruction. One month on, conditions on a fabled tourist destination are bleak.

The Federal Reserve is gearing up to raise interest rates after inflation hit a 40-year high, sparking fears in Wall Street about what these steps will mean for the economy.

The Northeast has been getting hammared by a powerful winter storm all day. Tens of thousands of Massachusetts residents are without power, and many areas have well over a foot of snow.

They’re part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ efforts to push back against the so-called “woke” agenda.

Major energy companies have reported a surge in profits in the first three months of the year as oil prices have rallied.

China's cheap labor has sparked a booming manufacturing sector and a threat to U.S. factories and plants. But NPR's Adam Davidson writes that faith in good old American ingenuity lends some manufacturers hope that they will be able to compete successfully against the Chinese.

FEMA has a pool of cash set aside to reimburse burial costs — even retroactively — to the families of COVID victims. But clerical challenges and slow outreach have stymied the application process.

More and more home owners are refinancing, and a full quarter of homes sold last year went to investors instead of live-in homeowners. How long can this hot market last, and when it ends, are we looking at a minor chill, or a full-blown ice age?