A record 6,542 guns — 18 a day — were intercepted at U.S. airport security in 2022
With the exception of pandemic-disrupted 2020, the number of weapons intercepted at U.S. airport checkpoints has climbed every year since 2010.
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Tributes pour in for former President Jimmy Carter after he enters hospice care
Politicians, celebrities, organizations and more have been heaping praise on the one-term Democratic president who continued leading a life of public service long after he left the White House.
A visit to Nikki Haley's hometown — where division 'still exists'
Nikki Haley paints her hometown as a place where race was a reality, but not a limitation. But residents say some racial divisions still exist.
A Jeff Koons 'balloon dog' sculpture was knocked over and shattered in Miami
The sculpture, valued at $42,000, was one of several balloon dog sculptures by the world-famous artist. Fortunately, it's covered by insurance.
Richard Belzer, stand-up comic and TV detective, dies at 78
Belzer was one of TV's most indelible detectives as John Munch in Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU.
Michigan State is set to resume classes following last week's mass shooting
Students are expected to return to class on Monday, one week after a gunman shot and killed three people, and injured five others, on campus.
A Catholic bishop was killed in California over the weekend, investigators say
Auxiliary Bishop David O'Connell was born in Ireland and served as a priest and a bishop for more than four decades. The 69-year-old was remembered as a "peacemaker."
Blinken tours Turkey's earthquake zone and pledges $100 million more in U.S. aid
The additional aid includes $50 million in emergency refugee and migration funds and $50 million in humanitarian assistance, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
In 2022, Black farmers were persistently left behind from the USDA's loan system
An NPR data analysis shows Black farmers were accepted for USDA direct loans at a lower rate than other racial groups in 2022. Direct loans are supposed to be among the easiest for farmers to get.
1 side owned slaves. The other side started Black History Month. How a family heals
In the U.S., what does it mean when a white family and a Black family share a last name — and one of their ancestors is a pioneer of Black history? How Black and white Woodsons became one family.