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According to an ISAF statement, the attack that killed a NATO service member and a civilian contractor in Afghanistan on Saturday may not have been an insider attack as originally reported.

For the eleventh straight night, France has been rocked by riots following the deaths of two teenagers of Mauritanian and Tunisian origin. Monday, French police reported the death of a man who was beaten up in a Paris suburb on Friday. President Jacques Chirac has vowed to punish those responsible.

Top officials from the Bush and Clinton administrations tell the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks that they had no specific intelligence before the attacks suggesting terrorists might hijack airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center. But last year, Congress published a report saying a number of warnings detailing the attacks were ignored. Hear NPR's Danny Zwerdling.

Reports emerge on an Islamic militant Web site that insurgents in Iraq have beheaded another U.S. hostage, Jack Hensley. The group led by Jordanian-born terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi killed one American captive Monday. Hear NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Peter Kenyon.

Damon Weaver, a fifth grade reporter at Canal Point Elementary School in Florida, provides an update on his quest to interview President-elect Obama. Weaver finally scored press credentials to cover the inauguration, and he has been invited to cover many glamorous events in D.C.

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.

By Rebecca Feldhaus/APCarbondale, IL – Spring enrollment numbers are down again at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The total number of…

By Chad LampeMurray, KY – Republican David Williams claimed more than $750,000 in campaign funds at the end of 2010 for his Kentucky gubernatorial…

NPR's Alex Chadwick talks to Bob Moon of Marketplace about cars that are the most popular targets of thieves.

international trade policy was clearly influenced by domestic political concerns on three occasions in 1995 and '96. Critics contend that the administration caved in to farmers and other domestic interest groups at the expense of American consumers.