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He was the first musician to package his future royalties into a bond and sell them to investors.

More and more states are liberalizing marijuana laws, either for medical or recreational use. Reporter Deandre Benjamin reflects on the marijuana use he sees in his neighborhood and among his friends.

MetLife says it's planning to break off its part of its U.S. life insurance business because of stiffer federal regulations regarding the amount of capital the company is expected to hold.

Tension is building along a major fault in the seabed off Alaska's coast, research shows. Devastating tsunamis from sudden slips in certain sections could directly hit Hawaii and Central California.

Volkswagen CEO Mattias Mueller, who was in Detroit earlier this week for the auto show, told NPR that the emissions cheating scandal was a technical problem and not an ethical one.

President Obama began his State of the Union Tuesday night with what he called a fact: The United States of America now has the strongest most durable economy in the world, citing 14 million new jobs.

Critics wanted President Obama to detail the next phase of his strategy against ISIS in his State of the Union address. What he didn't say about Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria was just as significant.

There's not much the White House and the Republican-led Congress can agree on this year. President Obama singled out one issue in his State of the Union address: an overhaul for the justice system.

Last summer, Mendoza became the network's first female analyst during an MLB broadcast. Now the former Olympic softball player will be joining the broadcast full time.

Al-Jazeera America has been plagued by problems from its inception. The network never quite connected with American audiences, and internal tensions spilled onto the press.