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The world of infectious diseases has more than a few words and phrases you might want to know more about. We've got definitions for 11 key terms.

For the third time in 13 years, the movie star has sent an espresso machine to the White House press corps, encouraging journalists to "keep up the good fight."

NOAA's new weather satellite is carrying the first lightning detector ever parked in orbit over Earth. It has sent back its first images of real-time lightning storms in the Western Hemisphere.

By overwhelming majority, NFL owners voted Monday to approve the Raiders' bid to make a new home in Sin City. But it won't be a quick farewell. They're still playing in Oakland at least through 2017.

The storm swept through the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday, leaving more than 200,000 utility customers without power and some 6,000 canceled flights in its wake.

The Pentagon said that Qari Yasin was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan. Yasin is linked to the 2008 bombing of a hotel in Islamabad and the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

At least 34 of the dead reportedly were civilians. The blast happened just north of al-Bab, at a checkpoint crowded with people who had fled the fighting and were preparing to return to their homes.

Before the secretary of state even touched down in Moscow, heated words were already flying between the two sides over Syrian President Bashar Assad and the U.S. missile strike last week.

Afghanistan is facing crisis on multiple fronts as borders are closed, farmers in the country are facing a drought and the economy is in free-fall.

With some holiday spirit and over 100 volunteers, the White House has been decorated in the theme of "gifts from the heart." The theme honors front-line workers, first responders and the military.

Chicago was shaken by the shooting death of 8-year-old Melissa Ortega last Saturday. Nationally, the number of children shot has jumped during the pandemic.

The Oregon-born gray wolf gained a following this year when it became the first to travel to Southern California in a century. Wildlife officials say it appears to have been struck by a vehicle.

Colombians will go to the polls Sunday in the final round of a Presidential election that's had many surprises. Journalist Manuel Rueda explains the dynamics to NPR's Adrian Florido.

Scientists say a fisherman caught a giant stingray that measured almost 13 feet from snout to tail in the Mekong River.

More than 500 mature sequoias were threatened but there were no reports of severe damage to any named trees, such as the 3,000-year-old Grizzly Giant.

Ukraine says it scored a direct hit on the flagship of Russia's Black Sea fleet. Meanwhile, Moscow is moving more troops, artillery and helicopters into eastern Ukraine ahead of an expected offensive.

Lebanese civilians are fleeing from the fighting in the south of their country, heading north to find shelter in Beirut and elsewhere. The evacuees are looking for help wherever they can find it. Among those helping the displaced is Hezbollah.

Jack Devine, a 32-year CIA veteran, says the next person put in charge of the agency needs to rally the organization's sagging morale, and then turn his attention to the problems of Iraq and Afghanistan. Devine worked in the CIA's clandestine services. He left in 1999.

Many of China's rural poor see education as the only way to lift their families out of poverty. But village schools lack resources, and Beijing's plan to get rid of uncertified teachers would hurt them even more.

U.S. and British rescue teams have yet to arrive, but officials in Moscow say seven Russian sailors trapped since Thursday in a mini-sub far beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean are alive.