James Doubek
Russia’s central bank sharply raised a benchmark interest rate to combat steep losses in the ruble’s value as sanctions crimp Russian economic activity.
The gunman who held four people hostage at a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, is now dead, authorities said. The four hostages were physically unharmed.
A severe storm system caused scores of deaths and injuries and significant damage at a Kentucky candle factory, an Amazon facility in Illinois, a nursing home in Arkansas and many homes and buildings.
In a split with President Trump, Vice President Pence will attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Trump has said he will not attend.
In his public comments and in interviews with NPR, Chadwick Boseman both sought to inspire and to give thanks, particularly to young Black people.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the House back to vote on blocking the U.S. Postal Service from making operational changes that threaten the timely delivery of mail-in ballots in November’s election.
The NBA star who played for the Los Angeles Lakers for 20 years was killed Sunday morning in southern California, along with four others on board.
The shooter was killed by police officers. It was the second major mass shooting in the U.S. in under 24 hours, following a massacre in El Paso, Texas on Saturday, which killed 20 people.
Police say that at least 12 people have been killed at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., including a sergeant with the sheriff’s office.
The website, which has served as a home for the far-right online community, is now down after various platforms refused to host it.
“If you’re an American citizen, you should not be wearing that shirt in America,” a man says to a woman wearing a Puerto Rican flag shirt in a Chicago park. However, Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory.
NFL viewership has gone down in recent years. There are a lot of theories about the reason for the decline. To help sort it out, we asked listeners why they stopped watching.
An Amtrak passenger train came into contact with a CSX freight train early Sunday morning in Cayce, S.C.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said it will once again accept DACA renewal requests in response to a court order from a California judge this past week.
“On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer,” NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack said in a statement.
The Trump administration put out guidelines for how the government will decide what software vulnerabilities it will share with tech companies to fix, and which ones it will keep to itself for spying.
Writer Cathy Young says the outcry against sexual harassment may be going too far — that punishments don’t fit the alleged crimes. Podcaster Kaitlin Prest says people still don’t understand consent.
The former president “has patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner,” his spokesman wrote. Actress Heather Lind wrote that Bush “sexually assaulted” her.