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Bedbugs have reappeared across the country, and they're making a dramatic comeback in New York City, where residents reported five times as many infestations this year as last year. The City Council wants to ban reconditioned mattresses, but parasite experts say that won't work.

President Bush visits the sites of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to mark the fifth anniversary of the events. After a memorial service at Ground Zero in New York City, where the World Trade Center towers fell, he travels to the Pentagon in Northern Virginia and to the rural Pennsylvania site where hijacked plane crashed.

The governor said he’s concerned about the lack of oversight, including bets on events which can be influenced by state employees.

Palestinian officials say local elections in Gaza and the West Bank mark a step toward a long-delayed presidential election. The Palestinian Authority hasn't held a presidential election in 21 years.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are revamping the Ebola suit. They've come up with a design that's safer, cooler and easier to take off than the space suits currently in use in West Africa.

Thanksgiving is of course a very American holiday. What, though, is an American overseas at this time of year to do — specially when it comes to eating turkey?

What form of government do we have in America now? Some scholars say it is no longer liberal democracy, but "competitive authoritarianism." NPR's Frank Langfitt explains the term and its origin.

NASA has assigned astronauts to the first mission to bring humans to lunar orbit since the Apollo program more than a half century ago.

It's time for a parade and rally for Super Bowl champs the Kansas City Chiefs. Much of the city attended.

A new study shows that an Ebola vaccine can cut mortality figures of those infected in half.