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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised his top aide who is accused of violating quarantine rules by leaving London and driving to northern England while he was infected with COVID-19.

In times of great danger, some survivors report encountering a phantom presence, which guides them to safety. Writer John Geiger chronicles the phenomenon in his new book, The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible.

Thursday's rockfall comes one day after a slab ‘the size of an apartment building’ peeled off El Capitan, killing a climber from Great Britain.

Harris has the tough job of tackling deep-rooted problems driving tens of thousands of people in Central America to try to migrate to America. Her first foreign trip as vice president starts Sunday.

Democrats begin a second round of debates Tuesday night in Detroit. A vigil is held for shooting victims in Gilroy, Calif. And, Capital One Bank is dealing with a major data breach.

Photographer Andria Hautamaki is used to limited connectivity, living on an off-grid ranch in Chilean Patagonia. Now, her access to the Internet and other humans is further reduced.

Half a dozen top executives at the U.S. Agency for Global Media were ousted this week, the latest in a shake-up that started with the arrival of a conservative filmmaker as the agency's new chief.

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell joined U.S. Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger in slamming Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 program. Carlson began a two-part show series on the insurrection Monday night.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Illinois state Representative Abdelnasser Rashid about the killing of a six-year-old Palestinian American boy in what prosecutors call a hate crime.

As Google invests in a startup called Improbable, a digital simulation of real cities, economies and biological systems, commentator Andrei Codrescu thinks of Communism and that dream of a new world.