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President Biden has picked Gary Gensler to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Gensler made a fortune on Wall Street early in his career, but he has since become a tough market watchdog.

Scientists sent by the World Health Organization are wrapping up a visit to Wuhan, China. They were investigating how the coronavirus began, but it's not clear how much they were able to find.

Pitchers and catchers soon report to Arizona facilities for baseball spring training, but there are concerns the annual ritual could cause or worsen COVID-19 outbreaks.

Some Nashville organizers want to strengthen Black political power in the city and state. And they are tapping into a legacy of people-driven movements to do so.

Director Karyn Kusama has a history of films where women fight back. But Destroyer, despite its transformation of Nicole Kidman, fails to develop a compelling story to support that transformation.

Thousands of asylum-seekers in Mexico are waiting their turn to ask U.S. border officials for asylum. A volunteer group of doctors and nurses travel to Tijuana weekly to attend to their health needs.

The nonpartisan report says the U.S. needs to undertake a long-term effort to prevent groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida from getting a foothold in vulnerable countries.

Less than two months ahead of Election Day, a group of voters and election security advocates say the state's touchscreen voting machines are insecure and should be replaced with paper ballots.

Entertainer Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing got underway Monday in suburban Philadelphia. The 81-year-old comedian faces the possibility of prison time for three counts of aggravated indecent assault.

Actor and comedian Bill Cosby is sentenced to at least three years in state prison after his conviction earlier this year for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman.

The controversy involving a Catholic high school group from Kentucky has underlined racial and political divisions in the country. It's exposing those tensions within the Catholic church as well.

Virginia's governor and attorney general face calls to resign amid revelations they appeared in blackface decades ago. That's reviving a conversation around the history of blackface in our culture.

The former Obama AG will decide whether he's running in the next two weeks. The speech he plans to give certainly sounds like the building blocks of a possible campaign to challenge President Trump.

Travis Kauffman, 31, was halfway through his run in the foothills outside Fort Collins, Colo., when he heard rustling behind him. He soon found himself in a struggle to survive.

Since 2017, the social media website Pinterest has limited search results for false cures and anti-vaccine advice. NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Pinterest's Ifeoma Ozoma about the policy.

Huge snowstorms hit the West in February and in places like the Sierra Nevada, the snowpack is well above average. Reservoir operators and farmers are watching the new snowpack forecast data closely.

Fallout continues from a botched police raid in Houston. Officers rushed into a house where they believed heroin was being sold. Officers were shot, a couple was killed and then the story unraveled.

Some employers are offering benefits that pay down student loans. They say it's a popular way to recruit younger workers who are struggling with college debt.

"There's a chance, there's a very substantial chance that it won't work out," President Trump said of the June 12 summit with Kim Jong Un. Trump met with South Korea's president Tuesday.

Democrats will be tested Tuesday night, with primaries in four states. Some activists are concerned the party could nominate candidates who are too liberal just as President Trump's popularity is rising in the polls.