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NPR speaks to Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marine colonel, about President Trump's speech to the military's top brass Tuesday.

The Supreme Court said that prosecutors had overstepped when they used an obstruction law to charge one of the Jan. 6 attackers. The ruling may affect other prosecutions.

A year after the attack on the Capitol, there's a growing realization that traditional tools to counter extremism in the U.S. may not apply.

on Speaker Newt Gingrich's bid for a second term. His re-election has been clouded by his admission that the ethics sub-committee received misleading documents about funding of a college course he taught.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the four directors who have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation since J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI's most recent director, Louis Freeh, leaves a bureau clouded by scandal and accusations, but his predecessors didn't have an easy job, either.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says that a geomagnetic storm that originated on the sun may explain why a major communications satellite stopped functioning two weeks ago. NASA captured the most comprehensive images ever of the storm, including a sequence showing a cloud of solar particles lifting off the sun and heading toward Earth. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Commentator John Rosenthal describes a photograph he once took. The image he captured in the picture is deceiving, and people make incorrect assumptions when they look at it. Photographs beg the viewer to look for what is behind the picture. Because things aren't always as they seem -- like the atomic mushroom cloud, which is beautiful until you understand what it means.

Colorado ski resorts work to increase cloud seeding and produce more snow on the slopes, saying the past year was one of the worst on record for snowfall. Eric Whitney from member station KSUT reports.

Part of Nick Underwood's job is flying through hurricanes to collect data for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He's been doing that for six years and says Ian was especially rough.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is in Brazil to draw attention to the strong ties the two countries share. Brazil has been flaunting its close relationships with Russia and China.