Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.

A series of unexpected events after the narrow election has set up a power struggle in the Minnesota Legislature. Days before ...

More than 100,000 Los Angeles County residents remain under evacuation orders, and the threat of fire there is not over. New ...

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were accused of making bomb threats. An NPR investigation now has them ...

The Wilson family evacuated from their home in Altadena, California before it burned down. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Virginia Wilson and her 16-year old daughter, Charlotte.

President-elect Trump's picks for his national security team will soon start confirmation hearings, after his remarks about buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal and making Canada a state.

President-elect Donald Trump picks a fight with California Governor Gavin Newsom as the wildfires burn, and was sentenced this week.

The threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.

Wildfires have a history of causing problems with the drinking water systems. In some affected areas around LA, officials are ...

The president-elect's undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and annexing Greenland and even ...

The 30th anniversary of the Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza at the National Western Stock Show is a celebration of pageantry and ...

The defamation case brought by voting technology company Smartmatic against Fox News can proceed, a New York state appellate ...