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President Biden briefly emerged from COVID isolation to announce that U.S. killed the top leader of al-Qaida, Ayman al-Zawahiri, who took over as leader when Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011.

The U.S. men's national soccer team scheduled a pair of friendly matches against two top European teams. After a 5-2 loss against Belgium, the U.S. is hoping to avoid the same against Portugal.

The President meets regularly with his top advisers about the security situation in Iraq. His National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley attends these meetings. He talks with Steve Inskeep about what the president wants to know, and what he needs to know.

President Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, spends four hours testifying in his fourth and final appearance before a grand jury investigating who exposed the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

A new NPR investigation shows that election workers nationwide are already bracing for threats as the 2024 presidential race looms.

A new report backed by the State Department found a 10 percent jump in students coming to the U.S. for higher education.

Sometimes a baby's outer ear may be a tad misshapen. Surgery can help later on, but a plastic mold makes the most of the fact that a newborn's ears are pliable. They can reshape within weeks.

Carly Fiorina will join the original 10 on the main debate stage next Wednesday on CNN, while just five lower-tier candidates will part of the earlier debate.

Deep in the woods of New Hampshire, 20 inmates are engaged in a fierce chess tournament in a secluded prison. The prize may be just a paper certificate, but even then, winning means a lot.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he never applied to West Point, although in his book, he had written that he was "offered a full scholarship" to the elite military academy.