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Outside the immigration detention center in Tacoma, Washington, a group of volunteers waits for people being released. They offer the former detainees food, clothing, cash, and help getting home.

The U.N. says the strike hit a hangar within the Tajoura Detention Center, obliterating what had been a shelter that was housing roughly 120 people.

Parade, the Tony Award-winning musical about the 1915 lynching of a Jewish man, begins its run in Washington, D.C., amid an antisemitic backlash against the show's subject.

Sophie and Colin Hortman remember their parents, Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman, as "the bright lights at the center of our lives." The couple was murdered in their home last weekend.

The 175 mile stretch of river running roughly from Ottawa to Havana isn't federally recognized as a port. That causes some problems when it comes to landing funding for big projects.

For Illinois restaurateurs, when they say help is needed to stay in business, they don't mean sometime next month. They mean immediately. "We just need…

If you need your property cleared of weeds and tall grass, you could hire a landscaper. Or, you could commission a herd of goats to do the job instead.

Access to news in rural communities is dwindling, as newspaper staffs shrink and publications shutter. For these communities, some reports are coming from unexpected places.

Evangelical Christians are considered an important part of the coalition that re-elected President Bush. For a two-part report, NPR's Jeff Brady visits Colorado Springs, Colo., a center for evangelical Christian organizations.

Journalist Jonathan Alter regards the 2012 presidential contest as the most consequential election of recent times. In his new book, Alter argues that President Obama's re-election prevented the country from veering sharply to the right, and he dissects the campaign and the events that led up to it.