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The news was announced recently by health and government leaders in American Samoa, which has a population of about 54,000.

Several Syrian hospitals were hit by airstrikes and missile attacks, throwing more doubts on the chances for a truce plan made by world powers last week.

Alabama bars felons convicted of crimes of "moral turpitude" from regaining voting rights. But defining such crimes is subjective. An estimated 15 percent of black adults in Alabama can't vote.

Former President George W. Bush is campaigning for his brother Jeb Bush for the first time this year at a rally Monday night in North Charleston, S.C.

The Supreme Court vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia has the potential to upend the 2016 election. NPR takes a look at what signal the president might send with his choice to succeed Scalia, and how the public might react to Republican leaders vowing to not to confirm anyone.

As the annual event kicks off today, we revisit our talk with the 2015 judge for Best in Show at Westminster, David Merriam.

A new Supreme Court ruling means thousands of juvenile offenders who were given life without parole could now have a shot at release. Youth Radio's Sayre Quevedo has the story.

Skate boards took their final turns in one of the nation's best known skate parks this weekend. "Love Park" in Philadelphia is being bulldozed in preparation for a new park with less concrete and more plantings. Skateboarders said Love Park was ideal for their sport, so good they kept going even when the city banned them. Philly relented and gave them the weekend for some final runs before the demolition began.

Justice Antonin Scalia's death comes just weeks before the Supreme Court hears its biggest abortion case in a decade. The reach of that decision is likely to be impacted by his absence.

For the first time in his presidential campaign, Republican candidate Jeb Bush brought former President George W. Bush on the campaign trail Monday at an event in North Charleston, S.C.