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to pressure churches and social service agencies to stop feeding homeless people from their vans and cars, because they think it discourages folks from going to shelters. The food-givers say they'll continue to do what they deem to be God's work.

Newt Gingrich to a second term as Speaker of the House, when the new Congress convenes tomorrow. Several House Republicans have expressed hesitation about supporting Gingrich, but he is expected to have little or no trouble getting the number of votes he needs.

The woman sustained non-life threatening injuries and is being treated at a hospital, according to officials. Wildlife officers killed a bear found nearby.

Attorney General William Barr has sent Congress a letter with special counsel Robert Mueller's key findings. There have been calls for him to share the full report, but Barr is not required to do so.

Myanmar plans to announce the creation of the largest tiger reserve in the world -- an entire valley nearly the size of Vermont. NPR's Renee Montagne discusses the plan with the Wildlife Conservation Society's Alan Rabinowitz, who helped bring the change.

Kentucky businesses that allege the state’s unemployment compensation system is weighted against them may be surprised by the actual figures from 2011.…

By Associated PressFrankfort, KY – The auditor's office has found in a review that some state agencies didn't properly monitor how more than $100,000 in…

The National Weather Service in Paducah says temperatures have topped 100 degrees today in a reading at Barkley Regional Airport. NWS tweets that the…

Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Faysal Itani of the Atlantic Council about the future of Syria and President Bashar Assad as the civil war there shows no sign of ending.