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The federal government is investing billions to bolster school safety and mental health resources to combat gun violence. But some sense a disconnect between those programs and what students need.

Rescue operations are underway in the city of Tainan, on the southern end of Taiwan, after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the area.

Russia invaded Ukraine six months ago. In that time, thousands of people have been killed, cities destroyed, millions of people displaced and the Ukrainian economy has been battered.

The attack on the Capitol continues to cast a shadow over Congress as both a building and an institution, as it remains either the subject or subtext of most every political discussion in Washington.

The recent stock market plunge has many wondering whether the U.S economy is taking a turn for the worse. Steve Inskeep speaks with Austan Goolsbee, top White House economist under President Obama.

Bernie Sanders is pushing for Democrats to do away with closed presidential primaries.

A co-defendant of the so-called Central Park Five, whose convictions in the notorious rape of a jogger were thrown out more than a decade later, had his conviction on a related charge overturned.

The leftist party that swept Greek elections earlier this year promised to save Greece from the clutches of austerity. But Greece and the European Union remained deadlocked over a new credit deal.

"The states in the Security Council don't want justice," Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss publication Blick. "I can't any longer be part of this commission which simply doesn't do anything."

The deal, which must be approved by regulators, would combine the world's second- and third-largest oilfield services providers. The new company would be a formidable rival to Schlumberger Ltd.