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Concession speeches have a long history in the United States and have some utility as well, even if they carry no legal import.

A major hurricane hasn't hit the U.S. since 2005. There hasn't been a lull that long since 1861 to 1868 — when Abraham Lincoln was president.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control says the U.S. birth rate is the lowest in 30 years. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks to Gretchen Livingston, from Pew Research Center, about why that is and it means for the U.S.

Even as China presses ahead with a military buildup in the South China Sea, the U.S. invited it to take part in the world's largest naval exercise at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Hurricane Gustav pummeled Cuba last week before the storm made landfall in the U.S. Now, Hurricane Ike is sweeping across the island, days after Cuba rejected storm aid from the U.S. Michael Voss, a Cuba-based journalist for the BBC, and NPR's Tom Gjelten, offer an update on Cuba and the political implications of the storm.

Any bailout of Detroit's Big Three automakers appears in trouble in Congress. General Motors has said it could run out of cash by the end of the year.…

Wall Street fell today upon news of the smallest monthly addition of jobs in almost six years.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with special education teacher Anna Jones and school administrator Wayne Stewart about how the coronavirus pandemic has changed their work as educators.

For $109,000 you can buy a 7,000-square-foot house that straddles the border between Vermont and Quebec and has entrances to the U.S. and Canada. Border agents from both countries keep an eye on it.

The fundraising figures are in for two democratic candidates who want to be elected U.S. Senator next year. The report shows a very close race between two…