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"We believe it is the largest effort in California to wipe out old criminal convictions in a single court motion," District Attorney Jackie Lacey said.

A three-judge panel found the Trump administration failed to analyze whether such requirements "would promote the primary objective of Medicaid — to furnish medical assistance," as required by law.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Minxin Pei, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College, about the political crisis that China's leadership faces as coronavirus continues to spread.

The fires that burned for months over much of eastern Australia have finally been brought under control, helped by days of intense rain. But recovery remains a long-term effort.

The United States has reached a deal with the Taliban to reduce violence for a week before the U.S. and the Taliban sign any deal on a U.S. troop reduction.

Efforts to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus have shut down factories across China, part of a vast supply chain the world's economies rely upon. The economic impact is global.

Valentine's Day would seem a strange date for men-only events, but in Kenya, relations between the sexes are so fraught the males are running to the safe spaces of men's empowerment conferences.

A Soviet spy has died at the age of 103. Russians claim he saved the Polish city of Krakow from destruction by Nazis. Polish historians tell a different story.

TV crews and celebrity sightings have become the new normal at high school basketball games in Southern California, thanks in part to the kids of NBA royalty lining up for local teams.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on what the U.S. is doing to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.