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Amid the ongoing financial crisis, the Bush administration called the McCain and Obama campaigns into the Oval Office for an emergency summit.

The 25-year-old nursing student vanished after calling 911 and a family member to report seeing a young child wandering along the side of an interstate in Alabama.

President Obama, backed by British and French leaders, demanded Friday that Iran open for inspection a previously secret uranium enrichment plant, accusing Iran of breaking the rules of international conduct by concealing the facility.

Last month, the two main parties in Pakistan's new coalition government agreed to introduce a parliamentary resolution reinstating the senior judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf within 30 days of forming a government. Musharraf's enemies say once the judges are back, they'll declare his recent re-election as president as illegal. Wednesday is the deadline to reinstate the judges.

Rachel Joyce's new novel offers two parallel narratives: the 1972 story of Byron, an anxious schoolboy, and the present-day account of Jim, a supermarket worker who has spent most of his life in institutional care. But critic Ellah Allfrey says that the novel is made up of two distinct and unequal parts.

On Tuesday House impeachment managers delivered the impeachment articles against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate.

President Biden is floating a plan to reshape the Supreme Court, including term limits for Justices. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center, about Biden's objectives.

Last week, Britain’s center-left Labour Party celebrated a big win over the long-ruling Conservative Party. Then, Sunday in France, voters rejected a surging far-right populist party.

Several ministers quit the newly formed Cabinet as hundreds of demonstrators massed in the capital city to demand that the government be purged of the old guard that served ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Nearly 80 civilians have died since the unrest that began last month and has spread to other parts of the region.

President Trump wants to bring shipbuilding back to the U.S., in large part to counter China's dominance. But turning that into reality will mean rebuilding an entire industry from the ground up.