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A 15-car pileup at a race in Las Vegas claimed Dan Wheldon's life. Occupy Wall Street protests, and arrests, spread around the world. Financial markets buoyed by signs of deal on European debt crisis.

Accusers may testify today in first hearing about allegations against the former Penn State assistant football coach. Also: U.N. says 5,000 people have been killed in Syrian violence.

Cleanup of park in Manhattan is postponed, meaning the protesters can stay put. InItaly, the premier survives a confidence vote.

Michigan's Lake Superior State University collects nominees for words or phrases that should be outlawed for "misuse, overuse and general uselessness." This year's No. 1 suggestion is all about the cliffhanger.

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

The former secretary of state says a new report that some emails on her private server exceeded the "Top Secret" classification is "an effort to inject" controversy into her campaign.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he would be nominating senior White House aide Lindsey Halligan to serve as the top federal prosecutor for the Virginia office that was thrown into turmoil when its U.S. attorney was pushed out Friday.

One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.

Americans are not sold on President Trump's immigration deal that calls for billions for a border wall. That's one finding of an NPR/Ipsos poll that shows Americans sharply divided on immigration.

One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a new NPR/Ipsos poll shows many Americans still buy into the "Big Lie": the baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen.