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Congressional Republicans delivered on their first major legislative accomplishment of the Trump era on Wednesday, when the House voted 224-201 to pass the tax package.

In the first update of the National Defense Strategy since 2014, the Pentagon is putting more focus on Russia and China, the "primary concern in U.S. national security," as opposed to terrorism.

The hashtag #PenceFence made the rounds on Twitter as female journalists said they were made to stand behind their male colleagues at the vice president's visit to the holy site in Jerusalem.

A former punk rocker, a former mayor and a multilingual epidemiologist are among the six nominees vying for the top job at the World Health Organization.

Democrats are rallying to Hillary Clinton's defense after the FBI renewed its investigation into her email practices. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has been talking up the news.

Thawing permafrost in Alaska's Arctic is making it harder for oil companies to operate there. But a cottage industry has cropped up with new gadgets to help.

The feat has been compared to the four-minute mile or a two-hour marathon — "but vertically," one climber adds. Still, they beat the impossibly steep odds Wednesday in California's Yosemite Valley.

After a year away, an NPR reporter returns to Lebanon to find a country racked by inflation, degraded services and the pandemic and still picking up the pieces from August's explosion in Beirut.

To keep their three kids in a sought-after public school district, one family sleeps in a car in the parking lot of a Pennsylvania Walmart while the parents work the overnight shift at the store.

Half or more of U.S. households say the financial impact of the pandemic has been serious. An NPR and Harvard survey found Houston households were affected the most, especially Blacks and Latinos.