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Once one of the country's most powerful politicians, former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges of evading bank rules. Hastert told a federal judge he structured large payments of hush money to an unnamed individual in order to keep those payments and details about past misconduct secret.

Rick Santorum, Bobby Jindal, George Pataki and Lindsey Graham tried to make the best of it as they were relegated, yet again, to an earlier debate instead of the main prime-time stage.

In honor of Halloween, NPR gets a guided tour of parasites that reside in London's Natural History Museum.

A new proposal to install surveillance cameras at Jerusalem's most contested holy site reveals that, like much of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, even the idea is subject to interpretation.

Rep. John Boehner of Ohio is expected to hand off the speaker's gavel in the House chamber to Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin on Thursday. NPR's Susan Davis tells Renee Montagne about his exit interview.

During the National Gallery's first Vermeer exhibit 20 years ago, the federal government shut down twice, and a major blizzard hit the East Coast. But The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is undeterred.

Los Angeles is finding that community health workers — problem solvers who are untrained in medicine, but fluent in compassion — can be key to helping the county's sickest and neediest get better.

African-American women's advantage in avoiding breast cancer has evaporated, with their rates rising to match white women's. Higher obesity rates, a risk factor for breast cancer, may be one reason.

The FBI Agents Association honored two men who recovered a young boy seized and held in an underground bunker in Alabama in 2013. They died a year later in a training accident.

Many business leaders say U.S. exporters already are hurting because they lack financing from the Export-Import Bank. Congress is working on legislation to renew the bank charter that expired June 30.