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The Wisconsin governor bemoaned the rise of negative attacks in the GOP race, urging his remaining rivals to unite to stop front-runner Donald Trump.

After hundreds of Mexican free-tailed bats went into hypothermic shock during the city's recent cold snap, they lost their grip and fell. But they found a temporary home: the attic of Mary Warwick.

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan wrote that the jury in the Carroll case did not reach "a seriously erroneous result," as former President Donald Trump said.

To support President Biden's "whole-of-government approach to the arts," officials from different agencies, arts advocates and artists came together for a summit called "Healing, Bridging, Thriving."

The 41st president, who died Friday at the age of 94, will lie in state until Wednesday.

The James Dean Gallery in Gas City, Ind., will close after 17 years. Gas City is near Dean's hometown of Fairmount. Museum owner David Loehr tells Scott Simon what's so special about Dean.

A photo circulating on social media shows COVID-19 patients lying on the floor of the antibody treatment clinic at the Jacksonville Public Library...

Biden says, "Today is a great day for America and our long battle with coronavirus. ... It's been made possible by the extraordinary success we've had in vaccinating so many Americans so quickly."

The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the knife attack in Solingen, Germany, that killed three people and wounded eight others at a crowded festival.

An Afghan man who worked as an interpreter for the U.S. military was desperately trying to get out of the country. Here's how he and his family made it.

The New York congressman was accused of sexual misconduct by a former lobbyist. Reed acknowledged he had been struggling with alcoholism at the time of the alleged misconduct.

After the success of Love Is Blind, Netflix has found another way to hide conventionally attractive people from each other. We'd explain it if we could.

On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, a taxi driver remembers her first day on the job as a New York taxi driver and two memorable passengers.

"I'm not a fan of mysteries," says Isabel Allende. Strange words indeed from a woman whose mystery novel Ripper hits bookshelves this month. The renowned Chilean author talks about taking on a new genre and making it her own.

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with the irrepressible novelist about his latest book — a memoir this time, called Tibetan Peach Pie -- and why he hates being labeled as a counter-culture writer.

The EU chief concedes that that getting all 27 member countries — some of them highly dependent on Russia for energy supplies — to agree on oil sanctions will be extremely difficult.

America's top diplomat heads from China to the U.K. where Ukraine's post-war recovery tops the agenda

The coronavirus has led many employers to tell their workers to telework. But the federal government has sent mixed messages.

A decade after China's global infrastructure program started, the U.S., G7 countries and private capital will invest in clean energy, technology and other projects in developing countries.

Temperatures topped 104 degrees in the state's top cattle county. In widely seen video footage, rows of carcasses are shown lined up along the edge of a field.

Development banks need new strategies to address problems that cut across national borders, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said.

Since 2000, more than 150 journalists have been killed in Mexico. Among them is Regina Martinez, a veteran journalist reporting on government corruption and human rights abuses in Veracruz state.

With a Ted Cruz or Donald Trump GOP nomination looking possible and Bernie Sanders gaining on the Democratic side, the former New York City mayor and billionaire is seriously eyeing a White house run.

On a very hot day in Washington, President Biden met with mayors from two cities grappling with extreme heat, announcing some new measures to try to help workers deal with the issue.

Gish Jen's new novel takes place in a dystopian future country called AutoAmerica, where the swamp-dwelling underclass — called "Surplus" — are set against the fair-skinned, land-dwelling "Netted."