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NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Tina Park, executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, about whether sending North Korean athletes to the winter Olympics in South Korea, signals any significant change in relations.

Like many reptiles, the sex of a turtle is determined by how warm the egg is as it's being incubated. And small temperature differences can cause dramatic changes in the male-to-female ratio.

Lawmakers are trying to decide whether the state should step in and save struggling power plants that might be on the brink of closing. As the...

The Senate failed to advance legislation to provide a solution for the end of DACA approaching on March 5, but that deadline may not be such a firm cudgel to get Congress to act.

The White House's withdrawal of Victor Cha as a candidate for ambassador to South Korea comes as an apparent result of differing views on the idea of using a preemptive strike against North Korea.

Saudi Arabia's attorney general says the kingdom has netted more than $100 billion from princes and businessmen being held at a luxury hotel in the capital, Riyadh. The incident has raised questions about the economic health of the oil-rich kingdom.

Steve Inskeep talks to former Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood about the country's infrastructure and what he'll be looking for in the package President Trump is expected to unveil Monday.

The U.S. has the 31st highest rate in the world: 3.85 deaths due to gun violence per 100,000 people in 2016. That was eight times higher than the rate in Canada, for example.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, had stinging words for his old friend, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, after the Justice Department opposed a bipartisan sentencing bill.

U.S. stock markets fell early Wednesday after China announced its latest round of retaliation in the escalating tit-for-tat tariff fight. But major indexes were all up by the end of the day.