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Squatters have taken over the London home of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's son, Saif al-Islam. The eight-bedroom house is in an expensive suburb of London and has its own indoor swimming pool. The squatters say they have occupied it as a gesture of solidarity with the Libyan people. Britain has frozen billions of dollars of other investments and assets owned by Gadhafi or his children.

Internet connectivity and other technology issues are frustrating Americans working from home amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Holiday pleasures We Bought a Zoo and The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn are pure entertainments — not high art, but solid family films that just want to show an audience a good time.

Across the country, local governments are wrapping up a brutal year, with slipping tax revenues and sharp declines in state aid. The shortfalls come at a time when towns and cities are struggling to provide more services, from food kitchens to health care. In northern New York, local leaders in Elizabethtown may be forced to close the county-run nursing home.

A community rallied after a couple lost their dog in a car accident that nearly killed them all. Eventually, they all made it home.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with retired teacher Barbara VornDick about her years-long efforts to shed new light on the life and death of Eliza Monroe Hay, President James Monroe's eldest daughter.

Not only public celebrations of Mexico's Cinco de Mayo have been canceled, but families have to mark the holiday without beer — it is not on the list of essential products during the pandemic.

Like many families in Houston, the Garcia family was forced to leave their home as Harvey floodwaters rose.

In a small New Jersey town, 17 bodies were found at a nursing home hit by the coronavirus, The New York Times reports.

COVID-19 continues to menace nursing homes across the US, but a new report reveals just four out of 10 nursing home residents have gotten their updated COVID shot since last fall.