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A federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday about whether the Ten Commandments must be displayed in public school classrooms in Texas and Louisiana.

The proclamation must be approved at the federal level before McLean County will have an opportunity to receive aid.

American-led restrictions have blocked China from accessing some of the world's most advanced technologies, spurring China's efforts to build its own know-how and intensifying the tech race between the world's two biggest economies.

In professional sports, it's the players who get all the attention. But commentator Frank Deford says referees, who so often go unnoticed, bring their own style and artistry to their craft.

On Thursday, the Vatican formalized the excommunications and declared that the Society of St. Pius X had entered schism, breaking communion with the pope and the Catholic Church.

Republicans in Iowa are gathering at sites representing more than 1,700 precincts. Robert Siegel talks to NPR's Ted Robbins, who reports from a Republican caucus site in Ankeny, Iowa.

At issue in the case was a post-Watergate law that Congress passed to limit the amount of money individuals can give to political parties.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a powerful new kind of cholesterol-lowering drug.

When Wilco keyboardist Mikael Jorgensen was a child, he visited his sound-engineer father Joe Jorgensen as he worked with jazz pianist and composer Bob James.

A new study finds a strong relationship between exposure to air pollution and the risk of developing dementia, while air quality regulations are being weakened in the U.S.