General Motors struck a deal to settle a U.S. criminal case over faulty ignition switches that have been tied to 124 deaths. But, according to a person who has been briefed, no current or former executives will face criminal charges.

Reuters reports that the company will sign a deferred-prosecution ...

The NFL said today the New England Patriots can reinstate the two employees at the heart of the deflategate scandal, allowing John Jastremski and Jim McNally to return to work.

Jastremski, the team's equipment assistant, and McNally, the officials locker room attendant, were accused of deflating footballs below league standards ...

New poverty and income data from last year released Wednesday by the Census Bureau showed an unchanged poverty level from the 2013 rate of 14.8 percent and a median household income that did not increase.

Valerie Wilson of the Economic Policy Institute told NPR's Pam Fessler that these numbers were ...

After months of trading public criticisms regarding the proposed Iranian nuclear deal, President Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Nov. 9.

The White House said in a statement that Obama "looks forward to discussing with the Prime Minister regional security issues, including implementation ...

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After beating Italian club Juventus to win the Champions League title last season, today FC Barcelona began its quest to defend its title as the best soccer team in Europe.

But in what felt like an upset, the defending champs drew with Italian club AS Roma ...

NASA astronauts Cady Coleman and Serena Auñón, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan came to NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to talk with NPR's Adam Cole about space exploration, women in STEM, and common misconceptions. They also discussed what it was like to ...

As the Two-Way previously reported, on Monday night Hungary implemented emergency border-control measures, including a barbed wire fence, in an attempt to seal the border with Serbia and stem the flood of people crossing unauthorized into the country.

Now, Austria's Interior Ministry has announced similar border-control measures on its ...

Pope Francis will give 18 speeches in five days during his visit to the United States.

Of those 18 speeches, the Argentine will deliver four in English; he'll deliver the rest in his native Spanish.

Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said Tuesday that while Francis polished his English during ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday defended his decision to provide military assistance to the Syrian government, saying that cooperating with Bashar Assad's regime is necessary in order to defeat ISIS.

Speaking at a meeting of heads of state of former-Soviet nations, Putin also said Russia will continue to provide ...

A baby bobs up and down in a kitchen, as a Prince song plays in the background. His mother laughs in the background and his older sister zooms in and out of the frame.

This innocuous 29-second home video clip was posted to YouTube in 2007 and sparked a long ...

On Monday, a judge in Charleston, S.C., denied bail to a white ex-police officer, Michael Slager, who is charged with murder in the April shooting death of an unarmed black man, Walter Scott.

Slager, 33, shot Scott, 50, in the back eight times as Scott ran away during a ...

A new Miss America was crowned Sunday night in Atlantic City, N.J., but it was a moment with a Miss America from 32 years ago that stole the spotlight.

Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America winner in 1983, but she was forced to resign 10 months later after ...

The California State Legislature approved a bill Friday that would make it legal for doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.

The End of Life Option Act was passed by the State Assembly on Wednesday; Friday's final approval by the Senate sends the bill to Gov. Jerry Brown.

A judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of an Alabama police officer who faced one charge of violating an unarmed Indian man's civil rights by throwing him to the ground and leaving him partially paralyzed during a February encounter in the city of Madison.

The Huntsville, Ala., jury ...

The video released Friday by the New York Police Department shows retired tennis star James Blake leaning against a column outside his Manhattan hotel. Suddenly a plainclothes officer runs up to him, throws him to the ground and handcuffs him.

As the Two-Way reported earlier this week, the officer ...

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The World No. 1 Serena Williams was upset by the unseeded Roberta Vinci of Italy 2-6, 6-4, 6-4, ending Williams' quest to win the first calendar Grand Slam since 1988.

Favored at 300-1 odds and having never lost a match to the 32-year-old Vinci, Williams ...

A Florida man was arrested today for his alleged involvement in a a plan to bomb a 9/11 memorial in Kansas City, Mo.

20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg, from Orange Park, Fla., is charged with "distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction," according to a

Today NASA released close-up images of Pluto that are as revelatory as they are beautiful.

"Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system," said New Horizons Principal Investigator Alan Stern, according to NASA. "If an artist ...

Update: Patriots win 28-21.

Football is back.

Tonight at 8:30 p.m. ET the New England Patriots will play host to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Foxborough, Mass. The contest's prevailing narrative is sure to focus on the Patriots' quarterback Tom Brady, whose suspension for his alleged role in the Deflate-gate ...

Tourists come from all over the world to visit Harvard Yard, the famous quad at the center of one of the world's most renowned universities. But as The Boston Globe reports, the number and enthusiasm of these visitors has prompted Harvard officials to implement a new rule banning tourists from ...