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A top U.S. government scientist who helped investigate deadly anthrax attacks in 2001 reportedly committed suicide as the federal probe shifted to him. Bruce Ivins, 62, was a bioresearcher at defense labs in Fort Detrick, Maryland.

What was really behind Friday's abrupt departure of CIA Director Porter Goss? Walter Pincus of The Washington Post tells Howard Berkes that the housecleaning at the CIA went beyond what President Bush wanted.

At least 1 million people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19. NPR's Songs of Remembrance project shares some of their stories and the music they loved.

Nominations for Academy Awards are announced in Los Angeles. Brokeback Mountain and Munich were among the best picture nominees, while the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line was shut out. Critic Kenneth Turan discusses the nominations with John Ydstie.

Its environment and population are enduring major shifts as the country goes big on mining and as effects of climate change set in. See Mongolia's changes close up in this immersive photo essay.

In Washington, two Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump are aiming to fend off primary opponents.

Growing up without a television at home, cartoonist Kate Wheeler and her brother shared the joys of listening to audiobooks as children.

A top State Department official wants to unleash the power of Twitter, Facebook and other services to crowdsource the fight to control the world's nuclear weapons.

A forthcoming report says DHS officials had the intelligence they needed to predict that the pro-Trump rally would become violent. What was missing was DHS telling the people who needed to know.

The latest poll by NPR and its bipartisan polling team shows President Obama with a 7-point lead among likely voters nationally and a 6-point lead in the dozen battleground states where both campaigns are spending most of their time and money. But battleground voters were also more downbeat about the direction of the country.