HOLIDAYS WEEKENDS

Britain’s prime minister faces a no-confidence vote in Parliament on Wednesday evening. Why do members of her own party want to sack her?

The onetime fixer for Trump has admitted that not only did he commit financial crimes but also that Trump directed him to arrange hush-money payments to two women. Cohen also says he lied to Congress.

The earthquake struck eastern Tennessee before dawn Wednesday. As mild as it was, its effects were felt from eastern Kentucky all the way to Atlanta.

Federal officials at the U.N. climate meeting are ignoring climate science and touting coal and fossil fuels. But local and state authorities pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on their own.

“I will contest that vote with everything I’ve got,” the U.K. prime minister said outside of No. 10 Downing St. The vote may also decide the fate of her embattled Brexit deal with the European Union.

Chinese state hackers most likely attacked the reservation system at Marriott’s Starwood chain, revealing details of 500 million guests, according to people familiar with the U.S. investigation.

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.

Some colleges are extending scholarships and other help to rural high school grads. They see benefits to diversity — and their own bottom lines — in having rural students on their campuses.

A small hole in spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has sparked an investigation into its origin. Cosmonauts spent hours on a spacewalk to gather samples in hopes of determining its cause.

Researchers have devised a large clinical study to quickly assess whether one doctor’s apparently effective treatment for deadly sepsis is a fluke or worthy of widespread use.

A report by the Office of the Inspector General revealed Accenture, contracted to help hire 7,500 new agents, is “nowhere near” completing its goals and “risks wasting millions of taxpayer dollars.”

Defense lawyers told the judge their client gave investigators extensive help and gave the country exemplary military service.

A day after the prime minister delayed a critical vote on her Brexit deal, May has hit the road in search of assurances from European leaders — while political turmoil churns back home.

President Trump is threatening a government shutdown if he doesn’t get funding to build his border wall. In a meeting with Democratic leaders, he said, “tremendous amounts of wall have been built.”

Earlier this year, a federal judge dismissed the adult film star’s suit over a tweet Trump sent in April suggesting Daniels was lying about being threatened in 2011.

Initial reports indicate a suspect had been known to authorities as a security risk.

The outgoing governor of California spoke about climate change, nuclear proliferation, capitalism and more in a wide-ranging interview with NPR.

A team of researchers had been trying to determine whether the armored cruiser was lost to sabotage, an accident or an attack.

Michael Kovrig reportedly was taken into custody but China has not acknowledged it. Chinese tech executive Meng Wanzhou faces extradition from Canada to the U.S. to be tried on fraud charges.

A father and son are part of the majority of Americans who don’t hunt and didn’t learn from their parents. So they take a class, and learn a little about hunting and a few things about themselves.

After two days of deliberation, jurors said James Alex Fields Jr. should spend the rest of his life in prison for murdering Heather Heyer and injuring 35 others at the Unite the Right rally last year.

Students with campus jobs at Grinnell College want to unionize, but the college is pushing back and asking the National Labor Relations Board to reconsider an Obama-era ruling allowing such unions.

The fast-food giant, one of the world’s biggest beef buyers, announces plans to use its might to cut back on antibiotics in its global beef supply. Environmentalists are applauding the commitment.

The USNS Comfort spent a week in the Caribbean caring for ailing Venezuelans who couldn’t get treatment in their troubled home country.

The Trump administration wants to substantially limit which waterways are protected under the Clean Water Act. Farmers and developers have long lobbied against the current rule as too expansive.

This holiday season, the must-have item for people of a certain age is a vaccine to protect against shingles, the painful skin condition caused by a reawakening of the chickenpox virus.

The decision Tuesday follows five days of search and rescue efforts off the coast of Japan, following an accident last week that involved seven crew members. Only one Marine ultimately survived.

Time calls the four journalists and a news organization “Guardians” in a struggle against lies and misinformation that has pit news agencies against political groups and governments.

Sundar Pichai faced a Republican barrage on allegations of anti-conservative bias. He also was questioned on Google’s data collection and its work on a censored search tool for China.

While much of the farm bill draft mirrors current law, there is a major change coming for farmers: Industrial hemp will be legalized. Forestry and food stamps became sticking points.

Users’ names, birth dates, email addresses, work history and other data were exposed for nearly a week in November, Google says. It will now close the social network four months earlier than planned.

Something rare is stirring in Congress. There’s growing sentiment to force the president to end U.S. involvement in a war, in this case Yemen, where the U.S. military has been aiding Saudi Arabia.

With a partial government shutdown on the horizon, President Trump and Democratic leaders are set to discuss border funding and other issues at the White House.

Fifty-seven percent don’t think demanding funding for the wall is worth the gridlock, an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll finds. Many do not consider the wall a top priority for the next Congress, either.