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Aaron Dean fired through the window of Atatiana Jefferson's home after responding to a call from a neighbor.

Charlotte City Council voted 9-2 Monday to give Mecklenburg County a 10-year extension to sell Marshall Park to a developer. As part of a land swap in…

Over a redoubtable career, Bloom wrote scores of books, edited many more and irritated innumerable intellectuals. He died Monday in New Haven, Conn.

The author of the magisterial work A Short History of Nearly Everything turns his sights inside, but without the magic touch of the past that made his very big books transcend the common textbook.

More than 5.5 million people watched the dramatic end of Fortnite's first chapter on Sunday. On Tuesday morning, the game relaunched as Fortnite Chapter 2.

Eileen and David Connors say they accidentally crossed the U.S.-Canada border while vacationing. The couple and their 3-month-old son have been in a federal immigration facility since Oct. 3.

After Thom Tillis defeated Kay Hagan five years ago to win his Senate seat, he said he would hold town halls in an effort to represent all North…

Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was shot and killed in the confines of her own home by police officer Aaron Dean, who resigned Monday. Dean has been charged with murder.

Democratic party leaders are using Tuesday's presidential debate to harness the energy of supporters in Ohio heading into the 2020 election.

Lawmakers from both parties are pushing new bills sanctioning Turkey after the offensive in Syria against the Kurds. There is strong pushback to the president's moves to withdraw U.S. troops.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis’s campaign said Tuesday he raised $1.2 million in the third quarter for what’s expected to be one of the nation’s closest…

Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, revered experts on the Russian secret service, give the book a credibility most others on Russian clandestine operations lack — and they also change the optics.

Typhoon Hagibis slammed in Japan over the weekend, the most powerful storm to hit Japan in more than 60 years. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Motoko Rich of The New York Times about the damage.

Surveillance footage shows a young man casually walking away with the $20,000 work, one in a series that's seen as poking fun at both Pablo Picasso and the Spanish tradition of bullfighting.

Parts of the island nation are still in ruins, thousands remain displaced and rebuilding efforts have only just begun. But locals and volunteers are making a difference.

Relations between police and community members are once again being tested in Texas, after a Fort Worth police officer shot and killed a resident in her own home.

Henry Louis Gates, a renowned and award-winning filmmaker, author of two dozen books, a professor and director of African American studies at Harvard…

Twelve candidates are on stage in Westerville, Ohio, on Tuesday night — amid an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. NPR reporters are providing live analysis and fact checks of their remarks.

A new study estimates that the opioid epidemic has cost the U.S. economy about $631 billion because of health care costs and the unrealized lifetime earnings of people who died from overdoses.

With the debate's second question, the former vice president got a chance to respond to President Trump's accusations.