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Chicago's mayor says there must be honesty and integrity in government. Activists and legal experts say the shake-up in the country's second-largest police department provides a time for change.

If any laws were broken in the dealings with Ukraine, how might any individuals be held accountable? NPR's Scott Simon discusses the possibility with former federal prosecutor Berit Berger.

It's take two for Bill Cosby's criminal sexual assault trial. This time, there's a new jury, new defense team, new evidence and a new era of accountability for men accused of sexual misconduct.

Although news accounts have focused on the plight of Latino immigrants separated from their families, the majority of the detainees being housed at the federal prison in Sheridan, Oregon, are from South Asian countries.

Eleven years after Blackwater security guards killed more than a dozen civilians in Iraq, the retrial of one of the defendants ended in a mistrial. A court decides Friday whether he will be retried.

Annual state testing was canceled last year because of the pandemic. Many states want to skip it again, but the Education Department says no.

The heating, cooling and lighting in buildings account for nearly a third of U.S. greenhouse emissions. NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to shrink the carbon footprint of your house or apartment.

Researchers are trying to make a cleaner concrete to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curb climate change. The industry is estimated to account for at least 7% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

A UC Berkeley analysis finds that many California workers have no retirement assets and are not prepared. Now the state is stepping in with a program of its own.

The entertainer's wife had been largely absent during his sexual assault trial. She has now released a three-page blistering defense.