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A national survey of elementary school students asks about kindness as well as cruelty.

After President Trump unleashes new tariffs, China has a number of key U.S. imports — from soybeans to airplanes and iPhones — that it can choose to strike back against.

"My brethren of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles laid hands upon my head, ordained me, set me apart as president of the church. It was a sacred and humbling experience," Nelson said Tuesday.

The Jackson Magnolia, one of the oldest and storied trees on the White House lawn, just got a major trim. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with historian Jonathan Pliska about the tree's significance.

The best figure skaters in the United States are squaring off this week and will learn who will compete at next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea. Already, there have been some surprises.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks with Tina Park, executive director of the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, about whether sending North Korean athletes to the winter Olympics in South Korea, signals any significant change in relations.

President Trump and his aides are spinning the grand jury's indictment of 13 Russians linked to alleged attempts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election as an all-clear. Although that would appear to be overstating what the Special Counsel has actually said.

While the lack of an endorsement certainly won't keep Feinstein off the ballot, it's a sign that grass-roots Democrats are eager to supplant leaders who are seen as too moderate.

Some local border residents say the president is focused on building a wall when closer economic ties between the U.S and Mexico seem to call for another approach.

"The Olympics are great and all," but returning home was "way cooler than the Olympics," declared John Landsteiner, an engineer in Duluth, Minn.