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President Trump presented the Medal of Honor to the widow of Tech. Sgt. John Chapman, only the 19th airman to receive the medal and the first since Vietnam. Chapman was killed in 2002 in Afghanistan while attempting to rescue a Navy SEAL.

Lawyers for former President Trump and two co-defendants were in court in Florida asking a federal judge to dismiss charges of mishandling classified documents. The trial's start remains delayed.

The U.S. resumed Ukraine military aid and intelligence sharing after Kyiv agreed to a 30-day ceasefire. Now, a U.S. delegation is heading to Moscow for talks, hoping they accept terms of the proposal.

The FBI released an application it made to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to collect the communications of a onetime Trump campaign adviser and it offers a sliver of new understanding to the Russia imbroglio.

Mount Spurr, which scientists say is likely to erupt in the coming weeks or months, is about 80 miles west of Anchorage. But ash clouds could reach the state's biggest city.

The Senate is getting to work this week on President Trump's signature domestic policy bill. But growing concerns about its projected impact on the deficit are complicating its path to passage.

Bill McKibben says solar is a "last chance for the climate." T. Kingfisher offers a dark retelling of Snow White. Nicholas Boggs tells James Baldwin's story. Plus new debut fiction.

A wrap of the fallout from the election results.

We examine the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey after President Trump called for several of his political enemies -- including Comey -- to be prosecuted.

The annual winter respiratory virus season is in full force. The number of people catching the flu is skyrocketing, while COVID-19, RSV and other respiratory viral illnesses are also rising.

The world’s oldest film festival is underway in Italy -- it's the Venice International Film Festival. We learn more about this year’s most talked about entries.

No one wants rats scurrying about their neighborhood. But they're a cunning and evasive foe. Now, a community near Boston is trying their luck with a different approach: rat birth control.

Want to know how to make a public records request? Or what makes a meeting public? Your Florida has you covered.

A dispute over an editorial in a Chinese newspaper has widened into calls for more freedom of expression. Hundreds of people protested Monday calling for an open news media.

President Trump says he will insist that the Justice Department investigate whether his 2016 campaign was infiltrated by the DOJ or FBI for political purposes.

Olympic athletes strive to win gold, silver and bronze medals. But there was a different prize when the games originated in Greece more than 2,700 years ago.

President Trump's adviser Roger Stone says he wouldn't be surprised about a potential indictment from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller, but he has called the investigation baseless and faulted what he calls an official campaign to keep him quiet.

Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.

Iraq's port city of Basra is a hub of oil wealth but is poor and angry. Protests have continued for weeks over a lack of drinking water and an excess of political corruption — with some blaming Iran.

Following a Supreme Court ruling that rejected about half of President Trump's tariffs, U.S. businesses question whether refunds are coming their way.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Emmy Martin from The Chronicle of Higher Education about what the Epstein files have revealed about his links to higher education.

Russia watches from the sidelines as its partner Iran comes under attack, but the Kremlin anticipates a windfall with rising oil prices.

Russia launched a major air attack early Thursday on Kyiv that included a rare strike on the city center, killing at least 21 people, wounding 48 and damaging European diplomatic offices.

Lawmakers in both parties are trying to balance the competing needs of powerful stakeholders and consumers stuck with high bills. Despite progress, many insiders expect work to continue into 2020.

Democrats have called three career public servants to appear for the first public hearings this week in the Trump impeachment inquiry: William Taylor, George Kent and Marie Yovanovitch.