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With the backdrop of terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, the fifth Republican presidential debate was the most serious to date. It was fiery but some substantive disagreements emerged.

Curious to see who spoke the most in Tuesday night's GOP debate? So were we. NPR kept track of how long every candidate spoke - interruptions and all - during the debate.

Struggling under a $72 billion debt, the territory asked for a legal change allowing it to file for some form of bankruptcy. But lawmakers have left that language out of their tax-and-spending deal.

Leroy Peoples, the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, served 780 consecutive days in isolation.

The 4-month-old cub is now walking, squealing loudly, eating well and racing ahead of his older sister Bao Bao developmentally.

House Speaker Paul Ryan looks like he will avoid what would've been a government shutdown at midnight with a massive $1.1 trillion spending package. But he had to appeal to Democrats to do it.

In 2009, President Obama set a goal of zero percent homelessness among veterans by 2015. We look at how much progress has been made.

Fuel economy is at record highs and carmakers have surpassed strict greenhouse gas emissions standards for the third straight year, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

After holding rates near zero for seven years, the Fed approved a small increase Wednesday. While that step seems minor, the impact could be huge in 2016 as borrowing costs head up.

The winner could write a song about how to live a good life: She's a people-loving, honest-to-a-fault ER nurse.