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Americans are deeply divided over whether U.S.-led military force should be used to disarm Iraq or whether U.N. weapons inspections should be allowed to take their course. As NPR's Marcus Rosenbaum reports, a new survey sheds light on how conflicted Americans are over the issue. Read the poll results.

The Senate took a key test vote Tuesday on voting rights for Washington, D.C. All indications are that after a 30-year campaign with repeated setbacks, Congress is poised to pass a bill giving Washington a full seat in the House of Representatives.

Denuclearization and an official end to the Korean War are expected to be on the table in the first-ever meeting between leaders of the U.S. and North Korea.

An attorney representing two parents who sued conspiracy theorist Alex Jones over his false claims about the Sandy Hook massacre said the House committee has requested records from Jones' phone.

People in poor countries often get little or no warning about floods, storms and other deadly weather. Local efforts are changing that, and saving lives.

California's presidential primaries offer a big delegate haul, and its congressional primaries are also held today. Candidates are vying to fill the seat long held by late Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

Matt Salinger tells NPR's Morning Edition about what finally convinced him to allow his father's works to be digitized. J.D. Salinger died in 2010 and is most known for The Catcher in the Rye.

The physicist had just won the 1921 Nobel Prize when he scribbled his theory of happy living on a piece of hotel stationery and handed it to the courier at the Imperial Hotel Tokyo.

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.

An employee who must work on a sixth day would be paid 40% overtime, according to the new law.