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9 Of Those Killed In Duck Boat Capsizing Were Related

Updated at 5:25 p.m. ET Seventeen people are dead after an amphibious tourist boat carrying 31 people capsized and sank Thursday during a severe squall in a lake in southern Missouri. The Ride the...

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Key Taliban Figures Killed In Afghan Army Operation

Key Taliban figures are reportedly among a dozen militants killed in an Afghan army operation over the weekend in the country's northeastern Kapisa province. The Associated Press reports that "Sharin...

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Georgia Lawmaker Quits After Dropping Pants, Shouting Slurs On Sacha Baron...

Georgia state Rep. Jason Spencer — who bared his buttocks and yelled racial slurs on camera in an episode of Sacha Baron Cohen's satirical Showtime series Who Is America? — will resign from the...

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North Korea Reportedly Building More ICBMs

Satellite imagery gathered by U.S. intelligence agencies indicates that North Korea is building new ballistic missiles at a factory just outside its capital, according to The Washington Post. The...

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More Taxpayers Will Owe The IRS In April Because Of Underwithholding, Report...

More Americans will be writing a check to the IRS in April because their employers are not withholding enough from their paychecks following the new tax law, the Government Accountability Office says...

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Pompeo: Iran Needs 'Enormous Change' To Reverse Reimposed U.S. Sanctions

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the White House is ready to enforce sanctions against Iran that will be re-imposed starting Monday — an effort by the U.S. to "push back" against Tehran's "malign...

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Missouri Blocks Right-To-Work Law

Updated at 6:10 a.m. ET Voters in Missouri have overwhelmingly rejected a right-to-work law passed by the state's Republican-controlled Legislature that would have banned compulsory union fees — a...

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'Brady Bunch' House Winner Revealed: HGTV Outbid Lance Bass

HGTV is the winning bidder for the Studio City, Calif., house featured in the sitcom The Brady Bunch , with the cable network's parent company promising to "restore the home to its 1970s glory." The...

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U.S. To Impose New Sanctions On Russia For Nerve Agent Attacks

Updated at 4 a.m. ET Bowing to congressional pressure, the Trump administration has announced new sanctions to punish Russia for a nerve agent attack in the U.K. on former spy Sergei Skripal. In a...

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First Lady's Parents Become U.S. Citizens Thanks To 'Chain Migration'

First lady Melania Trump's Slovenian-born parents were sworn in as U.S. citizens Thursday, benefiting from a path to citizenship known as family-based immigration that the president and others have...

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NFL Players Renew Anthem Protests As Preseason Starts

Updated at 10:30 a.m. ET Several NFL players knelt, raised fists or simply refused to take the field during the playing of the national anthem as a controversial protest against police brutality...

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Nonpartisan Black Business Alliance Endorses 4 Democratic Candidates

Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit DAVID GREENE, HOST: A group of black business leaders has launched a new political action committee to back candidates who support economic causes that benefit...

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Trump Says China To Blame For Hurting U.S.-North Korean Relations

President Trump appears to be blaming China for derailing a U.S.-North Korea rapprochement, implying that it's placing "tremendous pressure" on Pyongyang as a result of ongoing trade disputes between...

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Special Counsel Reportedly Agrees To Accept Written Answers From Trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly dropped his insistence that President Trump appear in person to answer questions related to potential coordination his 2016 election campaign and Russia,...

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Alabama's Roy Moore Sues Over Embarrassing Appearance On Sacha Cohen Series

Former Alabama U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has filed a $95 million defamation suit against comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who pranked Moore on his television show by posing as an Israeli intelligence...

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Ken Starr: 'Eerie Echoes' Between Lewinsky Probe And Mueller Investigation Of...

Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel whose recommendations led to the 1998 impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton, tells NPR that "eerie echoes" of his probe two decades ago can be heard in the...

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Border Patrol Supervisor Arrested In Texas, Held In 'Serial Killing Spree'

A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor is being held in Texas on a $2.5 million bond following his arrest over the weekend on charges of killing four women, after a fifth would-be victim escaped and alerted...

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Trump And Japan's Abe Meet In New York Amid U.N. General Assembly Session

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in New York this week for the U.N. General Assembly session, says he had a "very constructive" dinner meeting with President Trump at Trump Tower, where the leaders...

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Virginia Backtracks On Tampon Ban For Prison Visitors

The Virginia Department of Corrections has decided to hold off implementing a controversial new policy that would have barred women from visiting state prisons wearing tampons or menstrual cups. As...

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American Bar Association Said FBI Investigation Should Come Before A...

Updated at 6:30 p.m. ET The American Bar Association said the Senate should not hold a confirmation vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court until the FBI investigated sexual assault...

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