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House Republicans rolled out their plan for overhauling the tax code. President Trump says he wants to sign the legislation by Christmas. Scott Simon talks with Jim Tankersley of The New York Times.

The U.S. government's most comprehensive climate report to date is at odds with the statements made by President Trump and his Cabinet.

Republican House leaders rolled out a $1.5 trillion tax bill this week, a sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax code. We look at what's next and winners and losers.

With a historic jump and a set of strong performances, the U.S. figure skaters put an exclamation point on a team win at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Stocks were down sharply on Thursday in a selloff that took the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1,000 points.

President Trump has unveiled his spending priorities Monday, calling for more spending on the military, border security and the opioid crisis.

In January 1968, the FCC and AT&T announced a plan for an emergency telephone number. But the Alabama Telephone Company decided to get out ahead of the feds and set up its own system.

Friday marks the start of the Lunar New Year. The way people celebrate — or choose not to celebrate — can reflect the economic divide in the world's second-largest economy.

It's been three months since state officials closed four liquor stores in Whiteclay, Neb. As the small town's primary source of income, that has affects both good and bad. The state-backed Whiteclay Task Force is plotting the town's future as dilapidated buildings are being razed and replaced with green space. Even the regulars who drank openly day and night and passed out on the sidewalks and in the alleys are gone.

"A violent yet controlled sport that's kind of a form of art." That's how Phaidra Knight describes rugby. On her retirement, she tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro what drew her to the sport.