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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says contractors and diplomats will be sent to Eastern Syria to help stabilize the country, protected by American troops already there.

Our occasional series about storytelling returns with a look at Red Dead Redemption 2, which inverts one of the biggest tropes in video games — the Power Curve. There's no leveling up here.

The Iraqi interim government is divided over whether to approve a massive assault on Fallujah and other insurgent strongholds in Iraq. Iraq's interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, is under pressure to find a negotiated solution. Patience, however, is wearing thin among American forces. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

Also: Hail the size of grapefruit falls in the Dallas area; federal health officials fear Zika is "scarier than initially thought"; and some Warhol Campbell Soup paintings are stolen in Missouri.

The U.S. Supreme Court says it won’t hear a challenge to Ohio’s death penalty law in a case involving a convicted murderer and rapist from Marion.

The Democratic candidate for US Senate is calling for a halt to the creation of private, for profit charter schools.

Kamala Harris has been a senator for nearly four years before becoming Joe Biden's VP pick. She doesn't have a long list of passed legislation, but she's known for aggressive questioning of witnesses.

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

The extension was announced just hours before it was set to expire. The president did not provide details on how long the new ceasefire extension will last.

The policy reversal comes one week after the global shipping company said it would halt such shipments due to new U.S. customs rules.