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NPR's Cheryl W. Thompson speaks with Mary McCord, executive director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, about the role of armed militias in the attack.

Since 2010, Nashville has bought 261 flooded homes and hopes to acquire 90 more. The city offers homeowners fair market value, then demolishes the houses and returns the land to a more natural state.

LIBOR — the London interbank offered rate — is being sold. How can an interest rate be sold? Well, like anything that is a brand name, LIBOR has value, even if that value has been undermined in recent years by scandal. The NYSE Euronext will acquire LIBOR from the British Bankers' Association. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.

The murder of the 14-year-old black boy and subsequent trial before an all-white jury was an early landmark in the civil rights movement.

Scott Simon talks with Associated Press reporter Marcos Martinez Chacon about the water crisis affecting the residents of Monterrey, one of Mexico's largest cities.

The United Arab Emirates is celebrating the return of one of its astronauts from the International Space Station, where he spent months — and took a step in the UAE's space ambitions.

More than a month after a deadly mass-shooting, Lewiston, Maine, businesses are feeling the economic pain just as residents deal with the trauma of the attacks.

David Rennie, longtime China Bureau Chief of "The Economist," is leaving Beijing. In Part 1 of an exit interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep, Rennie talks about where the Chinese economy is headed.

Whiskey barrels were piled in a mountainous heap Wednesday after the rest of a whiskey storage warehouse collapsed in Kentucky, nearly two weeks after…

Sequential Brands will pay $353 million in cash and stock for the company. Stewart will remain the chief creative officer in the deal.