North Carolina had 136 offenders on death row, among the top 5 largest death rows in the U.S. Gov. Roy Cooper's office said ...

Former opposition groups — some of whom are U.S.-trained — will be knitted together into new Syrian security forces organized ...

The couple married in 2014, but separated two years later. A lengthy legal battle ensued over custody of their children and ...

A U.S. official says arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month ...

Flagstaff's minimum wage will increase to $17.85 an hour starting January 1 — 40 cents higher than the current minimum.

The northern lights could be visible Tuesday night and Wednesday night over the Northern Hemisphere due to a geomagnetic ...

World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who escaped an Israeli airstrike in Yemen, says Gaza's health ...

Early Tuesday morning, almost the entire island of Puerto Rico was hit with a blackout, leaving more than a million people without power. Officials are warning it could take days to restore.

Linda Lavin, the Tony Award-winning actress best known for her role as a single mom and waitress in the TV sitcom "Alice," has died. She was 87.

In Steamboat Springs, Colo., a local artist made a menorah for Hanukkah from recycled snowboards. It's not the first time he has been inspired to infuse the holiday with a little mountain culture.

Kentucky is among several states that passed bans on street camping and it recently got a glimpse of how it works, in a video showing police giving a citation to a homeless woman going into labor.

Barbara Sprunt is a producer on NPR's Washington desk, where she reports and produces breaking news and feature political content. She formerly produced the NPR Politics Podcast and got her start in ...