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Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Don Long was alone on an anchored military seaplane in the middle of a bay across the island from Pearl Harbor when Japanese…

The Florida man charged on Friday ran afoul of the law for decades and was arrested for a slew of crimes, including larceny, drug possession and making a bomb threat.

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a previously scheduled hearing Tuesday on so-called red flag laws, which allow for the temporary removal of guns from individuals if they are deemed a risk.

After several days of relative silence, the U.S. cybersecurity agency now says a major computer hack poses a "grave risk", extending throughout federal, state and local government.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with sociologist Eric Klinenberg on harnessing lessons about social infrastructure from the 1995 Chicago heat wave to navigate the coronavirus crisis ahead.

The Senate will pay $266.67 an hour for work done by Tampa General Hospital physicians and $200 an hour for work done by non-physicians.

Amendment 4 restored voting rights to Florida felons in 2018 “after they complete all terms of their sentence including parole and probation.”

President Biden pledged to reopen most of the nation's K-12 schools during his first 100 days. When asked if that goal was "too optimistic," Cardona said, "No, I think it's strong leadership."

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is extending mandates and restrictions while much of the U.S. celebrates declining COVID-19 case numbers and hospitalizations.

Hundreds of thousands of refugees languish in the camps. UNICEF estimates that more than half the refugees are children. Some aid groups have warned that these children could become a lost generation.

When the post-Thanksgiving dinner board games come out, one Word You'll Hear could be: Pandemic Legacy. That's a hot new board game where players team up to contain epidemics worldwide.

Though infections are still sky-high, the U.S. may be turning a corner, according to a consortium of researchers who forecast the pandemic. And we may well be spared a winter surge.

Facebook said late Monday that "the root cause of this outage was a faulty configuration change" and that there is "no evidence that user data was compromised as a result" of the outage.

President Biden is urging Democrats to embrace incremental progress as the party negotiates down a broad spending bill. He may not have that option when it comes to its major climate policies.

The NEA Jazz Master died Tuesday from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 79.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg on the bipartisan infrastructure deal reached by Senate negotiators.

Scott Simon speaks with Krish O'Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, about how her organization helps Afghan refugee children resettle in the U.S.

The prime ministers of Australia and Serbia talked by phone about the tennis star's visa as he is seeded No. 1 in Australian Open.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with State Department spokesperson Ned Price about the return of Marine veteran Trevor Reed in a prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Russia.

Some players of online role-playing games are so determined that they will pay real money to get ahead. Steve Inskeep talks with Julian Dibbell, who wrote about the tax implications of this practice in a recent issue of Legal Affairs.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC's Division of Adolescent and School Health, about a new survey on teen mental health.

Ten years after China ended its one-child policy, fertility rates have not bounced back. NPR speaks with journalist Cindy Yu about what this means.

Trump plans to nominate Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, when Jerome Powell's term expires in May. The president has been pushing the central bank to slash interest rates.

William Barr has garnered headlines over the special counsel investigation, but he also has been at the center of several other big story lines in Washington.

Monarch butterflies with more white spots on their mostly orange-and-black wings are more successful at long-distance migration. Some scientists think the spots may affect airflow around their wings.