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It was drummed into our brains: Stay 6 feet from others! Limit close contact to 15 minutes. With the highly contagious delta variant, do we need to rethink those numbers?

Rep. Raskin is one of the people Biden pardoned before he left office. Raskin says it's strange to be pardoned for doing his job.

It has been a week of campaign promise fulfillment for President Bush. He has struck a deal with Congress regarding a budget for the next fiscal year and announced his plans to proceed with a high-tech defense system to protect the U.S. from ballistic missiles. And today he named the members of a high-level commission who will make recommendations for reforming the Social Security system. The new panel will be dominated by members who are interested in allowing at least some Social Security contributions to be invested privately. NPR's Don Gonyea reports from the White House.

Senate leaders from both parties agree on a plan that should allow a long-delayed immigration bill to proceed. But the fate of the underlying legislation, which would strengthen the borders but provide a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants, must still be determined in the Senate next week.

Daisy has retrieved 55 abandoned Frisbee discs from a disc golf course in Virginia. Daisy's owner is selling all of the unclaimed discs, with the proceeds going to the park where they were found.

A judge has ruled Florida's first bear hunt in two decades may proceed later this month. The judge ruled against environmentalists who argue the hunt...

NPR's Mike Shuster reports from Baghdad that after Saddam Hussein sent his tanks into northern Iraq to reassert his sovereignty there through a Kurdish group, the US not only retaliated by firing two rounds of cruise missiles at Iraqi air defense systems, it also froze a UN plan to allow Iraq to sell oil to use the proceeds to buy much-needed food and medicine. That plan would have helped alleviate some of the economic effects of six years of economic sanctions. But not everyone is displeased, for many are making millions from the sanctions.

Federal prosecutors say, under law, the more than a quarter-million-dollar proceeds from two life insurance policies should not benefit Syed Rizwan Farook's chosen beneficiaries. A court will decide.

Fans of the center fielder can now enjoy Julio's — cereal with his face on the box. The food itself looks like Fruit Loops, and proceeds go to underprivileged youth.

The committee turns its attention to former President Trump’s efforts to influence the Justice Department.

The last show of the pop icon's "Celebration" retrospective tour brought over a million and a half fans to Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana Beach on Saturday night.

Climate change is making powerful hurricanes more common. That may require adding a new official designation for the more intense storms, a new study suggests.

Scientists are watching how Portugal and other highly vaccinated countries are faring against the coronavirus' new omicron variant.

More than 20,000 people have died in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry. Violent rhetoric increased online following the Colorado Supreme Court decision to bar Trump from the 2024 primary ballot.

Six Democratic presidential candidates debate Wednesday night in Nevada ahead of the state's caucuses this Saturday.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Emory University Professor Andra Gillespie about Georgia's 6th Congressional district race between Lucy McBath and incumbent Karen Handel.

Trump said those prosecuted for the attack on the U.S. Capitol had served long enough, and he sought to shift criticism to a set of preemptive pardons issued by former President Joe Biden.

USF St. Petersburg is one step closer to finding its next regional chancellor, as the pool of candidates is now down to six.According to USF St. Pete…

Nearly 6,000 independent artists submitted to this year's Tiny Desk Contest. Meet the Utah band that rose to the top.

People in Lapeer, Michigan, called to report a car moving erratically. Callers said it looked like a six year old was driving. Police discovered that a six year old was driving. He'd taken the keys off the counter at home, and taught himself what to do.

The Republican National Committee censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and in the censure document labeled the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol "legitimate political discourse."

Some six years after a devastating fire, work is nearing completion at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Almost every part of the cathedral has undergone restoration and rebuilding.

In their book, This Will Not Pass, NYT journalists Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns reveal that GOP leaders, including Rep. Kevin McCarthy, privately discussed removing Trump from office.