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President Trump signed a memo ordering the Defense Department to roll back an Obama administration move that allowed transgender people to serve openly in the U.S. military.

The Antarctica peninsula is shrinking as global temperatures rise. David Greene talks to scientist James McClintock about why warm weather is killing off penguin populations.

To work all the expected flood claims, insurance companies will rely on hundreds of small processing companies. Some worry that inexperienced claims adjusters will do more harm than good.

Motorists are finding that the average price of a gallon of gasoline is 20 cents more than it was a month ago — the highest it's been in two years. The reasons have a lot to do with Hurricane Harvey.

Tensions between Russia and the West are ratcheting up as the Russian Foreign Ministry announced the expulsion of 60 U.S. officials and the closure of the U.S. Consulate in St. Petersburg.

The Tour de France begins Saturday. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with Wall Street Journal sports columnist and self-professed cycling fanatic Jason Gay.

Gabe Price, a 17-year-old senior at Paradise High School in California, almost missed out on qualifying for the state championships. But fellow runners at a neighboring high school stepped up to help him.

The Lion Air Boeing 737-800 crashed into the sea shortly after leaving Jakarta's international airport. Indonesian television showed video of an oil slick and debris field.

After more than a three-week delay, commercial crab fishermen will begin dropping their nets this Saturday in coastal waters from Bodega Head north to the Sonoma-Mendocino county line. The region was slated to open November 15, but was postponed due to unsafe levels of toxic domoic acid found in crabs. Points south of the Sonoma … Continue reading Crab Season Faces Delays As Fishermen Sue Oil Industry Over Climate Change →

A Steinbeck scholar says Murder at Full Moon, a mystery about a series of brutal murders that appear to be the work of a werewolf, should be available to all. Steinbeck's estate disagrees.