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Shaul Bakhash, the husband of American scholar Haleh Esfandiari, is working through media and diplomatic channels to seek her release from Iran. Esfandiari is spending her 15th day in captivity there, accused of spying.

UNM Regents To Consider President’s Future – Albuquerque JournalThe University of New Mexico Board of Regents will hold a special meeting this week to…

Did daring stories of fugitive slaves perhaps move the national political needle toward abolition?

Federal authorities in Chattanooga, Tenn., say they still don't know why a man shot up two military installations last week, killing five people. But they are releasing new details on the shooting.

Can the Iowa sensation finally win a ring? Will UConn repeat? Who could be this year's Cinderella? With March Madness around the corner, here's a preview of what to watch for on Selection Sunday.

Amid the ongoing financial crisis, the Bush administration called the McCain and Obama campaigns into the Oval Office for an emergency summit.

Also: While Beryl weakens, it brings much-needed rain to Florida and Georgia; Italy is rocked by second deadly quake; Romney aims to wrap up nomination today.

The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a health crisis.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Harold Isaac in Port-au-Prince about the acting prime minister's request for security after gangs last week massacred at least 70 people in a rural community.

A media investigation revealed this summer that scores of female inmates received prohibited sterilization procedures in California prisons between 1997 and 2010. State lawmakers are now demanding an audit into the legally questionable tubal ligations, to find out if coercion was involved.