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Rural jails in Kentucky are increasingly relying on income derived from payments for holding state prisoners in county facilities, according to a new…

The Washington Post laid off most of its foreign correspondents, including some of the last American and Western journalists working in authoritarian countries.

The driver reportedly tried to ram a security barrier outside the White House, sparking the chase that ended in gunfire and a congressional lockdown. The driver was killed, a federal law enforcement told NPR. A child with her in the car was reportedly uninjured.

Before releasing the redacted Mueller report, Attorney General William Barr said the evidence is not enough to establish that President Trump committed an obstruction-of-justice offense.

The latest Youth Risk Behavior Survey says 40% of high school students report feeling persistently sad and hopeless. Still, that's down from 42% two years ago, a small but significant change.

The Trump administration released a major climate assessment on Black Friday. It is the most detailed and blunt assessment yet of the dangers of unchecked global warming.

The president says he was never briefed on intelligence, first reported by The New York Times, showing Russia had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill Western forces in Afghanistan.

Police obtained a warrant to search the home of freelance videographer Bryan Carmody as part of an investigation into a leaked police report concerning the death of public defender Jeff Adachi.

President Trump and his top aides spent their first weekend in the White House threatening reporters and insisting on the veracity of demonstrably false statements.

Many Americans know little about the laws that dictate the legitimate and illegitimate uses of their Social Security numbers. Evan Hendricks, author of Credit Scores and Credit Reports and editor and publisher of Privacy Times, talks to Michele Norris about what to do if your Social Security number is stolen.