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Former Senate Majority Leader and White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker died on Thursday at age 88. Baker was one of the key players in Ronald Reagan's historic tax and spending cuts.

A new report says ranch is the salad dressing of choice in cafeterias and restaurants in the U.S. Its sales and shipments are double that of the No. 2 dressing: blue cheese.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

Governor Beshear declares a State of Emergency as Kentucky prepares for extreme weather

Israel's attack on Iran sparked the biggest jump in crude oil prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. Stocks fell sharply.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on a poll that asks Americans to rate public figures, both at home and abroad.

Singer-songwriter Rita Hosking grew up in a house she says was haunted. She's written a song for the ghosts of the child who died and the grieving mother who followed him.

As society makes astonishing technological advances, some think our future looks brighter than ever. But author Drew Magary isn't getting his hopes up. He has three books that set the bar pretty low for what the next generations will experience.

The former president is in Egypt to observe its first free presidential election, which begins on Wednesday.

Buckley says she for the "shadowy bits" of her characters. John Powers reviews the Japanese film Kokuho. Documentarian Morgan Neville chronicles Paul McCartney's transformation in Man on the Run.