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Former White House adviser Karen Hughes is appointed as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, where she will be charged with remaking the United States' image abroad.

NPR shares its most liked Instagram posts of the year. Breaking news and politics led but the audience still was drawn to baby boxes and other features.

After one CEO warned of an economic downturn that will be like a "hurricane," other chief executives suggest the debate over the likelihood of a recession is a tempest in a teapot.

Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman told a House committee that phone records prove several immediate requests for military backup were made in the first hour of the Jan. 6 breach.

No one has been a late-night TV host longer than David Letterman, who retires Wednesday after 33 years. Here's what he told TV Critic Eric Deggans about leaving the Ed Sullivan Theater one last time.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The Tops supermarket where Saturday's fatal shootings took place is a store Black Buffalo residents fought for years to get. Its temporary closure has left neighbors scrambling to find food.

Reports that Starbucks is testing a new coffee drink for autumn that incorporates "toasty stout flavors" has set off a debate over how such a concoction might taste, and whether it's a good idea.

John Powers, Fresh Air critic at large, weighs in on the trends of 2007: political campaigns, Iraq movies failing at the box office, HBO's The Sopranos, stories about hitting the road, the TMZing of America, jocks gone wild, hip sentimentality, the nightly ideological news, atheist chic and the writers strike.

U.S. and Pakistani intelligence operatives captured the Taliban's second-in-command. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar effectively ran the organization, U.S. officials say, directing Taliban military strategy in Afghanistan and controlling the group's finances.