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The number of people living in extreme poverty continues to plunge despite slowing global growth, the World Bank says. More than 1 billion people rose out of poverty between 1990 and 2013, it says.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says 20 years of U.S. efforts have failed to stop the North Korean nuclear program. He's trying to come up with a new approach.

Economists had anticipated 160,000 new jobs, even factoring in a large strike by Verizon employees. Meanwhile, the unemployment rate declined because of people dropping out of the workforce.

On Friday and Saturday, Dayton Metro Library system will hold its grand opening of the new Northwest branch. Much of the funds for this new branch and...

Every morning, poet Mathias Svalina rises early to bicycle around the city he's visiting to drop off dream poems to subscribers. He reads a poem he wrote for Morning Edition listeners.

Former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock was indicted on 24 counts including wire fraud, theft of government funds and making false statements. He says he looks forward to "all the facts coming out."

Swiss police say it appears the 22-year-old Swiss man of Ghanaian origin killed himself shortly after storming into the Zurich Somali-Islamic center where he shot and wounded three worshippers.

As Republicans debate how to keep their promise to dismantle Obamacare, a Kaiser poll suggests that the law has strong support for some key provisions.

Gore has spent decades warning about the dire consequences of unchecked, man-made climate change, while Donald Trump regularly called climate change "a hoax" during his presidential campaign.

The European Commission says Google "abused its market dominance as a search engine by promoting its own comparison shopping service in its search results, and demoting those of competitors."