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"I saw firsthand how police and prosecutors manipulate evidence, coerce witnesses into giving false testimony," says Jim McCloskey of Centurion Ministries. His memoir is When Truth is All You Have.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is set to unveil a GOP proposal this week that is facing some opposition among GOP senators and the White House.

The report by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee said government did little to find out if Russia tried to influence the Brexit referendum. "They did not want to know," a lawmaker said.

A historic drop in rates has millions of homeowners refinancing to save money. It's helping home sales, but it's not helping the broader economy as much as it would in a normal recession.

Health officials say they're not ready to determine if the data are statistically significant yet, but there's a positive trend. They say people should still practice social distance and wear masks.

Russ Travers was ousted from the National Counterterrorism Center in March. In his first broadcast interview since then, he warns that the U.S. risks becoming less prepared for a terror attack.

Almost nothing is known about William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, who died at age 11. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Maggie O'Farrell about her new novel, which imagines the boy's life and death.

The FAA says an airworthiness directive for Boeing's 737 Max is near, but it still may be months before the troubled plane flies passengers again.

The Barbers Hill Independent School District forbids male students from wearing their hair long. Two Black students were suspended when they refused to cut their dreadlocks.

More colleges are rolling back their optimistic proclamations of an in-person or hybrid fall. Plans are now more likely to include hefty virtual options, be mostly remote or even entirely online.

A single test that can give false reassurance sounds bad. But a $10 test for the coronavirus, if repeated daily, would discover real infections, say proponents of such tests as screening tools.

Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf insists that federal officers would defend the rights of peaceful protesters in Portland, Ore., but promises no letup against criminal activity.

On Tuesday, the Trump administration ordered China's Houston consulate to close, amping up tensions in already fraught relations. Here are some of the key developments reshaping U.S.-China relations.

Idaho's case count has quadrupled since mid-June, and about half of the more than 15,000 confirmed cases in the state have come in the past two weeks.

The electric car maker is now eligible to join the S&P 500 index, which means it would become part of the retirement accounts of millions of ordinary Americans.

Investigators reportedly say they have evidence that Roy Den Hollander, the FBI's primary subject in the New Jersey killing, was involved in the killing of a rival attorney earlier this month.

Trump says agents will go "into communities plagued by violent crime." He adds the administration has "no choice but to get involved."

A former diplomat at the U.S. embassy says Ambassador Robert Wood "Woody" Johnson IV told him about the request. "I advised him that doing so would violate federal ethics rules," he tells NPR.

The president took to the briefing room podium for the second time this week, without being joined by members of the White House coronavirus task force.

Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found at a nearby lake — the third service member from the Texas base to be found dead in the past month.