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Elizabeth Strout's latest is a chronicle of a plague year — and also of the main character's growing insights into herself, her family, and their changing relationships during this period.

Joe Nathan James Jr. was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend nearly three decades ago. He died by lethal injection Thursday night despite the victim's family's preference he serve life in prison.

Given the hullabaloo over the Chinese surveillance balloon, you'd think something like this never happened before. But it has. At least four times in recent years.

Officials watching the wreckage of a derailed train in Ohio warned nearby residents to evacuate Sunday night, saying a rail car was at risk of an explosion that could launch deadly shrapnel.

Indonesia's penal code had languished for decades while legislators in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation struggled with how to adapt its native culture and norms to the criminal code.

At the heart of the Ukraine grain export deal is a complex inspection process involving Turkey and the U.N. NPR recently joined a team of inspectors aboard a ship carrying grain in the Marmara sea.

As search and rescue efforts continue, officials in Maui say the death toll from this week's massive wildfires on the island has risen to at least 80.

President Barack Obama Monday gave GM 60 days in which to reorganize its business plan under new leadership before rendering a final judgment on additional taxpayer aid for the automaker. He also gave Chrysler 30 days to finalize a deal with Fiat with federal help.

Since most big corporations are self-insured, shifting even one high-cost employee out of the company plan could save the employer hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

The Federal Aviation Administration has released audio of conversation between pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and air-traffic controllers moments before US Airways flight 1549 splashed down into the Hudson River. All 155 people onboard survived in last month's splashdown.