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Yee, a Democractic senator who advocated for more gun control, was arrested on gun trafficking charges. He denied those charges in a federal court on Tuesday.

Critic David Bianculli says family dramas have always been one of television's most difficult genres to do properly — without getting too sweet, too overwrought, or too predictable.

Barbara Ehrenreich — a rationalist, atheist and scientist by training — has written a new memoir called Living With a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything.

Four months after a coal-washing chemical spilled into the river, many people in the Charleston area are still using bottled water.

The new agreement comes with a price: the Weather Channel has agreed to cut back its reality programming by half during weekdays.

Anthony Alexander, the chief executive of FirstEnergy Corp., says coal and nuclear energy will continue to play a central role in this country's energy future.

Mexican-American studies have been controversial in some parts of the country. In Arizona, for example, those studies were banned in 2011.

Seventy-five years ago, Marian Anderson made history when she sang to crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. The Daughters of the American Revolution had denied her the use of Constitution Hall.

Protests in eastern Ukraine are the focal point of the country's crisis with implications that stretch beyond its borders. Yet life in most of Donetsk seems untouched by the turmoil.

New Common Core teaching standards mean new standardized exams. NPR's Cory Turner took one himself and reports on what's changed.