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COVID-19 Pandemic Alters How We're Spending The Holiday Weekend

Memorial Day weekend is typically a time for big social gatherings. But with so many holiday destinations observing social distancing, this year may be unlike any public holiday in recent memory.

There Is Such a Thing as Truth

Academy Award-winning director Errol Morris explains the childhood incident that launched his lifelong quest for the truth. It's a lesson that has guided his career as a documentary filmmaker.

Fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe with "2023" projected on the building, at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris.

Countries across the world ring in the new year

From Bangkok to Berlin, one time zone at a time celebrated the entry into 2023.

This National Hurricane Center graphic, produced at 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, shows the projected path and strengthening of Hurricane Lee as it moves across the Atlantic Ocean.

Lee is a hurricane now and will be a 'major' storm soon — with 155 mph winds or more

The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Lee is forecast to strengthen rapidly into an "extremely dangerous" major hurricane this weekend as it nears the Lesser Antilles and Caribbean.

An extreme hurricane season is predicted for the Atlantic starting June 1

The National Hurricane Center is predicting an extremely active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which begins June 1.

A Soviet-era space probe crashed back to Earth after more than 50 years in orbit

Kosmos 482 rocketed into space in 1972 on a quest to reach Venus, but its journey was scuttled by an apparent engine malfunction.

Conservative Christian organization supports Louisiana's Ten Commandments law

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public classrooms. The ACLU said they will fight the law in court.

Are Tariffs On Mexico The Right Way To Stymie Illegal Immigration?

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Brandon Judd, president of the border patrol union, about plans to impose tariffs on Mexico for not stopping illegal immigration into the U.S. NPR's Joel Rose weighs in.

The 388-acre campus of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles was donated to the federal government more than 100 years ago for use as a home for disabled veterans, but is no longer used for that purpose. In 2007, Building 209, pictured here, was designated as a place to house disabled homeless vets. It is currently abandoned.

Los Angeles VA Has Made Millions On Rental Deals

The West Los Angeles VA Medical Center is a nearly 400-acre campus whose onetime sole purpose was to house veterans, but some say it has lost sight of that mission. The Department of Veterans Affairs has been renting chunks of the land, mostly to enterprises that have nothing to do with helping veterans.

U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., speaks Monday, Oct. 10, 2022, at the University of Florida, where he has been selected as the only finalist to become the school's next president.

Over protests, UF selects Ben Sasse as its next president

Sasse, a Republican U.S. senator from Nebraska, pledged not to be involved in partisan political activities as university president — a position he called "political celibacy."

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