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The California Republican congressman's resignation marks a dramatic change in fortune for the son of a once-powerful member of the House Armed Services Committee.

The Princeton graduate student held by Iran for three years was released Saturday in exchange for Iranian scientist Massoud Soleimani, who had been held in the United States.

The ship's high-profile christening marks a day of recognition for the thousands of workers that have participated in the project over more than five years.

The questions surrounding what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo knew about the Ukraine affair reflect the outsized role he has assumed as one of the president's most influential advisers.

"The fact of the matter is, this guy stood up and he was, in fact, lying," Biden said in an interview Friday evening with NPR Morning Edition host Rachel Martin.

NPR's Scott Simon asks University of São Paulo researcher Hamilton Carvalho about an explosion in the scorpion population in Brazilian urban centers.

It all started when a London primary school asked children to bring in a plastic tube containing approximately one tablespoon of homemade soup.

Many of the victims were asleep in beds in the factory when the fire began. Streets in the area were so crowded that firetrucks couldn't reach the site, and had to shoot water from 100 yards away.

Michel Martin speaks with Ruth Marcus, deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post, about what to expect this week in the impeachment inquiry.

Volcker took the top job at the Federal Reserve in 1979, at a time when inflation was spiraling out of control. He is credited with taming it.