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The salacious murder trial of a prominent South Carolina attorney took a new twist when Alex Murdaugh took the stand in his own defense in the killings of his wife and son.

Some migrants who traveled thousands of miles to the U.S-Mexico border brought their dogs but had to give them up after crossing. A woman in El Paso is working to reunite animals and owners.

The International Olympic Committee will decide on Tuesday whether it should ban Russia from the Winter Olympics in February over the nation's doping scandal.

Longtime Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee announced she will be running for the U.S. Senate seat in California after Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced she'll retire at the end of this term.

A Ukraine airliner crashed near Tehran's international airport, according to Iran state television, which said all 176 people on board were dead. NPR's David Greene talks to journalist Charles Maynes.

A slim majority of respondents in the latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll say the debt ceiling should be raised. But they split on whether to cut programs or raise taxes to reduce the national debt.

Some Michigan lawmakers want to do away with the life without parole sentence that juveniles who have been convicted of murder can still receive.

You've likely heard lots this week about how rare the repeated failed Speaker votes have been. But is this a new level of dysfunction for Congress?

The University of Vermont banned the sale of bottled water on its campus in 2013 to cut down on single-use bottles in the waste stream. But the number of plastic, single-use bottles being shipped to campus went up, and students ended up using more single-use bottles and drinking less healthy beverages out of them. Now the university is trying to figure out how to balance sustainability and nutrition in on-campus beverage sales.

Inflation cooled a bit last month as gas prices fell sharply and the price of new cars declined for the first time in nearly two years. Overall prices are still climbing much faster, however.