A shooting at a school in British Columbia left seven people dead, while two more were found dead at a nearby home, authorities said. A woman who police believe to be the shooter also was killed.

The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.

New data offers further confirmation of a crisis in the U.S. student loan portfolio, in which too many borrowers are not ...

Hat tricks have a rich history in hockey, but it didn't start there. For NPR's Word of the Week, we trace the term's some 150 ...

The attorney general's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee comes one year into her tenure, a period marked by a ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who says the U.S. should strike Iran.

The man serving a life sentence for New Zealand's deadliest mass shooting asked an appeals court to throw out his guilty plea.

The allegations were leveled by U.S. officials late last week. Arms control experts worry that norms against nuclear testing ...

A former Florida police chief said he spoke with Donald Trump in the mid-2000s about Jeffrey Epstein's behavior, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick testified about visiting Epstein's island.

U.S. curlers Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin won a silver medal in mixed doubles Tuesday. It's the first time the U.S. has medaled in this sport. Men's curling begins Wednesday.

More than a thousand people signed up for auditions in hopes of becoming an extra in the upcoming opera of "The Handmaid's Tale" in Detroit.

A day after President Trump threatened to block the opening of a bridge between Michigan and Canada, the state's governor says the project will proceed as planned.