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NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Wall Street Journal reporter Russell Gold about the volatility of crude oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota. That's the same oil that exploded when a train derailed in West Virginia two weeks ago.

Fifteen years ago, Peoples Church in Cincinnati was called First Christian Assembly of God. After race riots shook the city in 2001, Pastor Chris Beard refocused the church on racial reconciliation.

In this week's look at politics, the U.S. attorney general tells the president to stay out of the Justice Department but did he mean it? Meanwhile, Congress tries to reign in Trump's war powers.

New research suggests umpires are hesitant to make calls that change the course of the game, especially in games with high stakes.

The Nov. 13, 2015, attacks on the Bataclan theater and elsewhere killed 130 and injured hundreds. "From then on, everybody felt vulnerable," says a victims' advocate. The trial will last nine months.

After losing jobs during the pandemic, more and more women are becoming truck drivers. Many have been attracted by the high demand and higher pay.

After the attacks, barriers and thigh-high cement bollards sprouted up seemingly overnight in Washington, D.C. But new threats show the need for adaptability.

In Texas, the number of public school students infected with the coronavirus continues to surge. This comes as state and local officials squabble over mask mandates.

Authorities said Thursday that the body found three weeks ago near Peru, Ill., is that of miissing Illinois State University graduate student Jelani Day of Bloomington.

Illinois' new congressional maps draw Bloomington Normal into a district with Peoria, the Quad Cities, and a portion of the Rockford area. The new 17th district is thin and winds west of Bloomington-Normal, turns north at Galesburg and then east at the top of the state.