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Joe Straus, the influential Texas House Speaker, was viewed as a pragmatic moderate who blocked a so-called 'bathroom bill' from passing during this year's legislative session.

If you live on $1.90 a day or less, the World Bank says you are extremely poor. Two new poverty lines offer a way to measure poverty in middle income countries.

A military judge is allowing the testimony of service members who were injured as a direct result of the searches for Bergdahl, who was captured by the Taliban and held for five years.

On Wednesday, China unveiled its new leadership lineup for the next five years. "Evidently part of the new era is to leave open the question of successors," says political scientist Brantly Womack.

If you're walking across a street in Honolulu, you'll want to put your phone away. A new law went into effect today making it illegal for a pedestrian to be looking at a screen while crossing the street.

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, about the status of ISIS in Africa after four U.S. soldiers were killed in Niger weeks ago.

Nearly three decades after he disappeared, Moline police are trying once again to figure out what happened to Jerry Wolking. He was 52 years old when he…

The rock singer Gord Downie died today after a long battle with brain cancer. The lead singer of the beloved Canadian band The Tragically Hip was 53. NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Talia Schlanger, host and radio producer at World Cafe, about Downie's music and legacy.

Good timing is essential for people to benefit from emergency housing grants. This morning in Rock Island County, township officials announced they've…

Illinois reportedly is out of the running for an assembly plant proposed as a joint venture by automakers Toyota and Mazda. The effort to bring the...