English rock musician Ian Fraser "Lemmy" Kilmister of Motörhead died Monday of cancer at age 70. He was the frontman for the group, which he founded in 1975.

Lemmy found out he had cancer just two days ago.

Motörhead released the following statement on its official Facebook page:

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A ship loaded with more than 25,000 pounds of low-enriched uranium left Iran for Russia Monday as part of a deal aimed to limit Iran's nuclear program.

"The uranium was not bomb grade, but the U.S. worried Iran could have used it to make a bomb in a matter of ...

The unusually warm weather in New England has made for an unusually long lobstering season in Maine.

The mild weather means there is an abundance of lobsters in the Gulf of Maine and many lobstermen are continuing to fish well into December, when — in years past — freezing water ...

A grand jury has declined to bring criminal charges against two Cleveland police officers involved in the fatal shooting of 12-year old Tamir Rice.

"Simply put, given this perfect storm of human error, mistakes and miscommunications by all involved that day, the evidence did not indicate criminal conduct by police," ...

A camera-carrying drone crashed into the ground Tuesday just behind speeding Austrian skier Marcel Hirscher as he competed in a World Cup slalom event.

Hirscher, who finished second, didn't seem to notice during the race, which took place in Madonna Di Campiglio, Italy. He said afterward, according to ESPN, "This ...

NASA is suspending the next planned mission to Mars because of a faulty seismometer, which measures ground movements.

The mission, known as InSight, was supposed to begin in March and is now delayed for more than two years because of the way the orbits of the Earth and Mars are ...

A woman who police say killed one person and wounded dozens of others when she drove her car onto the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday night has been charged with murder. She is also charged with child abuse and leaving the scene of an accident, according to court documents.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl made his first appearance before a military judge today. Bergdahl walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009 and was held captive by the Taliban for five years. He faces charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.

During the arraignment at Fort Bragg ...

Rescue crews are working to locate more than 85 missing people after a massive landslide swept through the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.

The mud and debris that buried an industrial park in the city had been piled up against a hill after being moved during construction, NPR's Anthony Kuhn ...

A suicide bombing killed six American troops and injured two others near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan on Monday.

A driver rammed a motorcycle packed with explosives into a joint NATO-Afghan patrol in what was the deadliest attack on international forces since August, the Associated Press reports. A third person ...

A woman drove onto the sidewalk on a busy part of the Last Vegas Strip to mow down pedestrians on Sunday night, police say.

One person was killed and at least 30 others were injured.

Sheriff Joe Lombardo, of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, said video showed Lakeisha Holloway intentionally ...

#NPRreads is a weekly feature on Twitter and on The Two-Way. The premise is simple: Correspondents, editors and producers from our newsroom share the pieces that have kept them reading, using the #NPRreads hashtag. Each weekend, we highlight some of the best stories.

From All Things Considered assistant producer ...

Texas teen Ethan Couch was sentenced to probation in 2013 for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck, after his lawyers argued he had been coddled by his wealthy parents into a sense of irresponsibility. Now Couch is 18 and he's being pursued by the U.S. Marshals Service for violating ...

An American airstrike may have inadvertently killed Iraqi soldiers near the city of Fallujah on Friday, according to a statement from the U.S.-led military coalition conducting the campaign against ISIS.

The statement did not say how many troops may have been killed. An investigation has been opened.

"Acting on requests ...

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Friday for a resolution supporting negotiations to end the fighting and bring political stability to Syria. Adopted 15-0, "the plan calls for talks on a political solution and a cease-fire in Syria, except in those parts under the control of ISIS," reports NPR's Michele ...

The goal of Warmest Winter 2016, a project co-created by Chicago artist Chance The Rapper and a Detroit-based nonprofit called The Empowerment Plan, is to give 1,000 coats to Chicago's homeless.

This project, though, isn't your ordinary coat drive.

For one thing, the coats manufactured by Warmest Winter 2016 ...

Thursday night, the Cleveland Cavaliers LeBron James crashed into Ellie Day, the wife of PGA golfer Jason Day, as he dove to save a ball from going out of bounds on the sideline.

Ellie Day left the court on a stretcher with her neck in a brace and was taken ...

"You're a total charlatan, you're a total fake, you get the job," former NPR host Liane Hansen says to a not-yet-disgraced Stephen Glass in a 1998 interview.

She's referring to his time posing as a phone psychic, an experience he wrote about for Harper's Magazine in a piece called "Prophets ...

In May, Chelsea's soccer club was riding high. It hoisted the English Premier League trophy and Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho was doused with celebratory champagne in the locker room.

But the bubbly has gone flat since then, along with the team's performance. And on Thursday, after months of speculation ...

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that there is still no evidence that the San Bernardino, Calif., shooters had any contact with a foreign terrorist group like ISIS.

Comey also said Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were communicating online in 2013, before meeting in person, and showing signs of radicalization. ...