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NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Los Angeles Times reporter Barbara Demick about how she helped reunite a girl who was stolen from her mother with her twin and family in China.

It's official: Democrats now outnumber Republicans in voter registration in what once was the heart of the California GOP.

No Republican presidential candidate has claimed the state's 10 Electoral College votes since Richard Nixon in 1972 — the longest blue streak of a state in the country.

Reflecting on the memories each of us carry from a day of utter monumental tragedy.

The pound was long the symbol of Britain's economic might. The chaos surrounding Brexit, the country's 2016 decision to leave the European Union, has sent the currency falling sharply.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing creation of a huge new wildfire insurance fund to help protect the financial stability of California’s troubled major electrical utilities — but only if they make safety improvements and agree to a new certification system that will link executive compensation to their ability to keep the public safe. Officials in … Continue reading Newsom Proposes Huge Wildfire Insurance Fund for State’s Big Power Companies →

Authorities are encouraging anyone impacted by the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival to visit the Family Resource Center at Rucker Elementary School in Gilroy.

NPR's Scott Simon asks brothers Mark and Jay Duplass about working together as filmmakers and about their new book, Like Brothers.

So far, more than 130,000 people have been sacked from the military, police, civil service and academia in President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's crackdown, known in Turkey as "the purge."

The suicide rate for teenage girls is at a 40-year high. A nonprofit called Crisis Text Line is providing help — sometimes lifesaving help — through a medium trusted by young people: text messages.