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The president and all staff are leaving the West Wing for an extended period this month so that the heating and air conditioning systems can be upgraded, the White House says.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Dr. George Daley, the dean of Harvard Medical School, about the ethical discussions surrounding editing the DNA of human embryos and what the future of the technology might look like.

The company kept buying cars it knew had defective components from "gray-market" dealers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Then a Honda Vezel burst into flames, with an Uber driver at the wheel.

Tom Holkenborg draws on his history as trance DJ Junkie XL for the bombastic electronica-meets-orchestra music he has composed for Mad Max: Fury Road, Batman v. Superman, and now The Dark Tower.

Wyndham Lathem and Andrew Warren surrendered on Friday in California and are facing first-degree murder charges.

The 95-year-old TV producer and writer says he cannot celebrate "at a White House that has no interest in supporting the Arts and Humanities."

"Ants Among Elephants" is the memoir of an Indian woman, born a so-called untouchable, who is a New York City subway conductor. NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith speaks with author Sujatha Gidla.

Construction of new, modern reactors seemed to herald a new era of nuclear power expansion in the U.S. Now all but one of those projects have been canceled.

One day, the president signed a bill sanctioning Russia and acknowledged interference in the 2016 election. The next day, he told supporters in West Virginia "the Russia story is a total fabrication."

It's a pestilence that strikes goats, sheep and other small ruminants in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. It can wipe out nearly an entire herd. Now there's a vaccine campaign to wipe the virus out.