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Matt Bodner of The Moscow Times discusses Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's meeting with officials in Russia. Also, Sean Spicer has apologized for remarks about Hitler and chemical weapons.

New social science research looks at how to get more low-income students into college.

Steroids used to be the scourge of baseball, to the extent that Congress held hearings about it. Commentator Pablo Torre of ESPN The Magazine says time has been kind to some of the worst offenders.

A 16-year-old asked Wendy's on Twitter how many retweets would get him a year of free chicken nuggets. Wendy's said: 18 million. Carter Wilkerson has now been retweeted more than 2.5 million times.

A man in Pennsylvania robbed a credit union and rode away on a bike. He even stopped and went back when money came out of his pockets. But police still haven't caught him.

The Charlotte Department of Transportation says it is “evaluating” whether to enact a ban on street parking outside a women’s health clinic in east…

President Vladimir Putin made that comment to Russian TV today as his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov met with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.

Tens of thousands of South Africans took to the streets Wednesday to demand the president's resignation. Recent scandals as well as a controversial cabinet reshuffle have fueled concerns about ongoing corruption and mismanagement.

The Trump administration has now come around to the thinking that there is no future for Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, but the United Nations envoy has been struggling to negotiate a solution to this long running war.

Donald Trump's one-time campaign manager, Paul Manafort, continues to make waves in Ukraine, where he was once a close adviser to the the country's pro-Moscow former president.

When the author Ian Johnson first visited China in 1984, he says religious life appeared to be dead. Today, he says China is experiencing a dramatic return to religion, and he documents this in a new book called The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao.

"I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible," he says. " ... And I always wanted to be able to make Latin kids like myself feel more than."

A former staffer shared with The Boston Globe the three ring-binders full of female candidates for consideration to serve in Gov. Mitt Romney's cabinet.

One man figured out how to reproduce the magic of an Irish pub, and ship it in a container to anywhere in the world.

President Trump spoke about a strong commitment to NATO during his meeting with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday, a major switch from his rhetoric on the campaign trail.

A team of outside reviewers is in Charlotte this week to begin examining procedures and community relations at Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department.…

Planet Money tries to make a program that reads Donald Trump's tweets and then trades stocks. The first step is training the program to interpret the tweets using something called sentiment analysis.

A look at relations between the U.S. and China after Xi Jinping's visit to the U.S. Immediate challenges include how to respond to North Korea.

Today, people use the antique wooden cabinets to store their knick-knacks. But these card catalogs once held the keys to a world of information. A new Library of Congress book explores their history.

Sarah Gerard's lucid, atmospheric essay collection draws on her experiences growing up in Florida for a candid memoir that mixes first-person memories with thoughtful big-picture reporting.