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North Korea's leader was speaking at the country's highest-level political gathering since 1980. This comes after it has conducted a series of provocative weapons tests.

Stargazers, ready your (solar-filtered) telescopes: Mercury is passing directly across the sun Monday for more than seven hours. And you can watch — if you do it just right.

For Mother's Day in 2007, Michel Martin interviewed Cheryl Coleman, who was searching for her son. Since then, she's found him — but says she's spending this year's Mother's Day without him again.

The documentary filmmaker has been chosen to deliver this year's Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor bestowed by the federal government for work in the field.

David Greene talks to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts and Tucker Carlson, editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller, about the week ahead. West Virginia and Nebraska hold primaries on Tuesday.

Three and half years after a brutal gang rape in the Indian capital New Delhi ignited global outrage, a newspaper investigation finds that rape suspects there have an 83 percent chance of acquittal.

For years police have used dogs like German Shepherds to sniff out things a human officer might miss. As more evidence goes digital, officers are training K-9s to sniff out clues there, too.

Before a playoff game against Toronto, Dwayne Wade made practice shots during Canada's national anthem Canadians said he violated a rule that players stand in a dignified posture during anthems.

ProPublica's Charles Ornstein spoke with Niall Brennan about making health data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services more widely available outside the government.

The aid industry focuses on issues about women and is dominated by female staffers. So why are they often absent in high-level public conversations?