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A North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in his truck in front of the Library of Congress gave up after an hours-long standoff with police and is now in custody. No bomb was found in the truck.

Portland film fest celebrates the mother of French New Wave cinema

The Imperial Valley has emerged as an unexpected success story – 86% of eligible residents are vaccinated – despite being remote and heavily hit by COVID-19.

At McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, artists find beauty in the fragmentary and mutable nature of perception.

Maria Magdalena Andrejczyk of Poland announced she would sell her medal in the javelin throw to help fund heart surgery for an 8-month-old. A convenience store chain had the winning bid of $125,000.

Walla Walla, Wash., has among the highest per capita COVID-19 rates in the U.S. But the county's public health director says it's not his job to reach unvaccinated people in his community.

The Taliban could soon be facing a cash crunch. The U.S. and other countries have taken steps to cut off the international financing which Afghanistan has relied on for much of the last two decades.

Three families shared what was their experiences after they found out that their kids contracted COVID-19 and how that informed their decisions to return to in-person learning during the pandemic.

Chuck Close, who was known for his giant photorealist portraits of friends and colleagues in the art world, has died at the age of 81. Late in life, Close faced accusations of sexual harassment.

Heat has killed hundreds of workers in the U.S., many in construction or agriculture, an investigation by NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations found. Federal standards might have prevented them.