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The NPR/ProPublica series on workers' compensation has prompted a response from 10 ranking Democrats of Senate and Congressional Committees. The lawmakers want the Department of Labor to strengthen its oversight of state changes in workers' comp benefits and suggest possible legislation.

The ruling could force each company to pay millions in back taxes.

The epicenter of the magnitude-7.5 quake was in a region straddling Pakistan and Afghanistan and was felt strongly in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Ken Taylor — Canada's ambassador to Iran in 1979 — sheltered a group of Americans in his home in Tehran for three months before helping them escape to safety. He died on Thursday at the age of 81.

Times change and so do manners. We reassess good behavior in 2015.

This was a high-stakes showdown for both Hillary Clinton and the Republicans leading the investigation into the 2012 attack on the U.S.diplomatic mission.

This weekend, the Kennedy Center will award the 18th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to actor and comedian Eddie Murphy. NPR's Michel Martin takes a look back at Murphy's long career.

After a long and very public flirtation with a third White House bid, the vice president has ultimately decided against a late entrance into the presidential race.

The pole went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum. On Thursday, it was returned to Alaska tribal members.

Canada's new Liberal government is expected to chart a different foreign policy course. NPR's Rachel Martin asks Colin Robertson of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute what this means for the U.S.