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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy left the NATO summit satisfied with offers of long-term security aid from the United States and other G-7 countries, according to President Biden.

The CIA has acknowledged destroying videotapes it had made of its agents using harsh interrogation techniques against terrorism suspects. Guests detail the investigation process and talk about the subpoena Congress issued to former CIA official Jose Rodriguez.

The bus was traveling west on Interstate 70 when it crashed into commercial vehicles parked on an exit ramp, the Illinois State Police said.

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated after speaking with thousands of supporters at a rally in Rawalpindi, near the capital. It was a rally for the Pakistani elections on Jan. 8.

The Federal Reserve proposes regulations to combat predatory lending. The new rules would only affect future mortgages. The plan is already under fire from critics who wanted more aggressive action and charge that the Fed has been slow to address problems in the subprime mortgage market.

Super Tuesday pushed Republican presidential candidate John McCain well ahead of his opponents in the delegate chase, but it did little to resolve the underlying differences with the GOP. McCain held a news conference Wednesday to look ahead.

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's decision Thursday to suspend his lagging campaign surprised some observers. Ken Rudin, NPR's political editor, analyzes the circumstances surrounding Romney's announcement and looks ahead at what to expect next.

The voter turnout for Democratic caucuses in Washington is record-breaking. The race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is extremely tight, and Washington offers the candidates the biggest delegate prize of the contests: 78 pledged delegates are at stake.

After the biggest primary day in U.S. history, Republican John McCain has front-runner status for his party, while Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are in a dead heat. We sort out the results.

The 5-year-old female southern sea otter was first seen hijacking surfboards in Santa Cruz last September. Officials successfully drove the otter away from the area, but she has since returned.

It was a day of rescue and recovery in Arkansas as officials worked their way through the wreckage of Tuesday night's deadly tornadoes. The unusual mid-winter violent weather pushed through parts of Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi and Alabama — leaving at least 50 dead.

Mitt Romney is suspending his presidential campaign — further cementing John McCain's role as the likely Republican nominee. Romney said if he were to continue his campaign, it would delay the launching of a national effort against the Democrats. But McCain still has a task ahead of him: winning over dubious conservatives.

Vin Weber, policy chairman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, says some conservatives have spoken out strongly against John McCain, but that was easier to do when they had Romney as an alternative.

President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act invests $369 billion to address the climate crisis. But as the president focuses on the law's economic benefits, is his climate win getting lost?

A small but growing faction of the anti-abortion movement is calling for patients to be criminally punished. It's gaining traction in states such as Kansas.

A high-stakes vote in Thailand's parliament could end nearly a decade of conservative rule that began with a military coup.

Republican members of Congress spent hours at a hearing accusing FBI Director Christopher Wray of targeting conservatives with investigations. Wray denied their allegations.

GOP lawmakers want to amend the defense authorization bill. Guatemala's presidential election faces more chaos. Social media newcomer Threads seeks to downgrade news and politics on its platform.

Public-employee unions in Florida are scrambling to survive. A new labor law requires more workers to be dues-paying members — while making it more difficult to collect union dues.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Washington Post reporter Marianna Sotomayor about the hard-right GOP push to insert abortion restrictions and other issues into a defense spending bill.

It takes a half-hour in a pick-up truck to get to the bottom of a vast underground mine in Sweden — where the country is betting on extracting minerals for electric energy independence.

On this day 50 years ago, the band Queen released its first album and introduced the world to the singular voice of Freddie Mercury. (Note: Story first aired on Morning Edition on Aug. 30, 2010.)

Scientists recommend the start of a geological epoch defined by how humans have impacted Earth — soot, plastics and radioactive fallout have made it into the rocks, ice and mud that form our planet.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton campaigns with renewed vigor in New Hampshire after placing third in the Iowa caucuses last week. Clinton says she's going to work as hard as she can to reach voters before Tuesday's primary.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with Libya's Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalqam on Thursday, the latest sign of warming ties after Libya gave up its nuclear weapons program. But human rights activists say the visit tells another story — that the Bush administration's democracy agenda is dead.