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Nigeria is now off the list — the last case was in 2014. That leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan as the last two countries harboring the virus.

Ed Walker died Monday after signing off his long-running show, The Big Broadcast, for the last time. The show, heard out of NPR member station WAMU, reprised programs from the golden age of radio.

The deal, if approved, would largely eliminate the threat of government shutdown or a debt default until after the presidential election.

In response to a big jump in diabetes in the U.S., a federal panel advises tens of millions of overweight Americans to get their blood tested, and to get intensive counseling if sugar's too high.

More than 300 people are dead in Afghanistan and Pakistan the day after a quake hit the Hindu Kush mountains. Remote landscapes prone to landslides and home to militants are making relief difficult.

Authorities are investigating a classroom incident between a white school resource officer and a black high school student in Columbia in which the deputy flipped the female student's desk backward.

This is the second Doctors Without Borders facility to be hit by airstrikes in a month. The building in Yemen was destroyed but nobody was hurt.

As Congress debates a rewrite of No Child Left Behind, we look at one school in Durham, N.C. Watts Elementary wasn't just restructured as a result of the law, it was completely reimagined.

Tea drinking has long been synonymous with female tittle-tattle. Though men drank as much tea and gossiped as avidly as women, it was the latter who got stuck with the bad rap.

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. would not hesitate to back its partners using airstrikes or "direct action on the ground."