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The White House said President Biden and Vice President Harris spoke with Cherelle Griner on Wednesday, as more of the WNBA star's supporters publicly petition him to do more to secure her release.

The vote is a victory for a group of bipartisan Senate negotiators who worked with the White House to craft the agreement. The measure faces an uphill path in the House.

After 18 months of building, the Holetts were nearly set to move into their dream home in Dayton, Mont. It took their life savings to build the cabin. It took one wildfire to burn it down in minutes.

The Florida House is promising big cut to higher education funding. And it also has another idea for changes that should be made to the system. The...

A nurse's Facebook rant about the "cesspool of funky flu" in a Pensacola area emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention.

Democratic Representative Kelly Skidmore of Boca Raton said property insurance "is the most pressing issue of any issue we should have dealt with."

A growing number of Hurricane Ian victims are raising their homes to prevent catastrophic flood damage from another storm. That's raise, as in having the entire structures lifted up, and placed on supports.

Sudanese activist Duaa Tariq, who spoke to NPR throughout the war, shares what its like in the "liberated" capital Khartoum, after two years occupied by the Rapid Support Forces

After a speech where she pledged her support - and her vote - to former President Donald Trump, Nikki Haley heads to Israel where she can flex her foreign policy experience.

The Bright Eyes singer made Conor Oberst on an impulse while visiting the mystical mountain town of Tepoztlan in Mexico earlier this year. The approach is straight folk-rock, but it's less simple than it seems at first. But it also sounds like the next installment in the Bright Eyes catalog.

Less than a day after President Trump's inauguration, protesters are taking to the streets to oppose his policies. Between a rally and a march, they aim to call attention to a broad list of demands.

More than 120 million Brazilians will vote Sunday in a highly polarized election that could determine if the country returns a leftist to the helm of the world's fourth-largest democracy.

The World Health Organization has verified 43 attacks on health care in the three weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and says hundreds of facilities remain at risk.

President Biden is touting new semiconductor investments in New York today. Back at the White House, a new team is meeting with cabinet members to work out how to spend $52 billion from Congress.

The two economies, on either side of the Atlantic, are closely linked. Widening European debt troubles are undermining U.S. stock prices and increasing the odds of a global recession. But the problems won't be easy to fix because they're tied to the way the European Union is structured.

Hawaiians consume more Spam than any other people in the United States. Cookbook author Muriel Miura explains why and shares one of her favorite Spam recipes.

Among the things officials want to know: How much training had the pilot received before taking the controls of a Boeing 777; and what was the "training pilot" on board doing at the time of the crash?

The agency's public integrity unit has been reeling for more than a year over its mishandling of the corruption case against former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens. This week it seemed to bounce back, announcing arrests in two major public corruption cases.

Wilmington, N.C., on Monday became the first major city to permanently switch TV broadcasts from analog to digital. Most of the country will make the transition to digital TV on Feb. 17.

Journalist Max Hastings discusses his new book, Armageddon. The book tells the story of the bloody and violent final months of World War II from the point of view of the people who suffered through those months — and lived to tell about it.

Beauvoir, the Biloxi, Miss., home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, took quite a pounding from Hurricane Katrina. But the society that runs the estate is vowing to rebuild.

In court documents filed Monday, Baskin, who is seen in the trailer for the new show, said any sequel cannot feature any footage of her or Big Cat Rescue.

Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as a gunnery sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman, has died. He was 87.

The president of the largest U.S. teachers union is calling on school districts to delay adopting the Common Core education standards. The union's the latest group to voice concerns over Common Core.

Oscar nominations will be announced this morning. They had been delayed twice by the wildfires in Los Angeles.