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Kentucky’s Department of Corrections has spent more than $28 million trying to resolve problems accounting for how much good-time credit prison and jail…

A McCracken County assistant commonwealth’s attorney is running to be one of two circuit court judges for the county, following a longtime judge announcing last month he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2022.

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on hugs and other comforting behavior that occurs in the animal world.

Lawmakers in the House censured GOP Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona over an anime video that showed a character killing another character meant to be Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Gov. Andy Beshear said the death toll remained at 74 after weekend tornadoes. The ages of the deceased ranged from 2 months to 98 years old.

Oakland County prosecutor Karen McDonald said the parents of the suspect failed to keep a recently purchased firearm out of the hands of their son, who is accused of killing four classmates.

Magdalena Andersson, a former finance minister who leads the Social Democratic Party, won her second election in less than a week. She will officially take office on Tuesday.

Max Geller led a small crowd in protest of the fact that paintings by renowned French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir hang in Boston's Museum of Fine Arts.

Eight days after the public found out about a whistleblower's complaint regarding the president, the acting director of national intelligence testified before the House Intelligence Committee.

Forty years ago, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood at the door at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two black students from enrolling at the school. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports how the drama of the nation's division over desegregation came sharply into focus that June day.