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Gov. Steve Bullock is extending Montana’s stay-at-home order for at least another two weeks, until April 24. The Department of Justice Today confirmed...

Dorie Greenspan calls herself the "baking evangelist." In her new cookbook, Baking: From My Home to Yours, she shares easy Thanksgiving recipes: sweet-potato biscuits, all-in-one holiday bundt cake and pumpkin marshmallows.

Returning to a childhood home as a grown-up is always loaded with emotion. These three books about homecoming are guaranteed to make even the most stoic readers nostalgic for the too-tight embrace of family.

The first case in the U.S. was reported in Washington state and weeks later, an outbreak there at a nursing home helped scientists learn more about the spread of the virus.

Prices could increase 30% from a year ago when lockdowns kept more people at home.

Hundreds of homes within a mile of the Tampa Bay plant have been ordered to evacuate in case of a total collapse of the reservoir, which could cause catastrophic flooding.

The state has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. And it's also home to Smith & Wesson, one of the country's most successful gun makers.

Celebrity Cruises is requiring passengers 16 and older to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination, but that rule goes against the law in its home state of Florida.

In the third report in her series on refugees in the post-Cold War era, NPR's Ann Cooper reports on the political limitations facing the United Nations refugee agency--the U-N High Commissioner for Refugees. In an emergency, the world's powers always turn first to the UNHCR. But in the messy conflicts of the post-Cold War world, the refugee agency often is unable to accomplish a central goal of its work--getting refugees to go home again. This is particularly true in the cases of Bosnia and Rwanda.

Daniel talks with Diane Ackerman about her new book, "Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds" (Random House), which is about her journey to a small island near Japan, an island called Torishima, which is home to the rare bird known as the short-tailed albatross. The albatross lives 40 to 60 years and has the capacity for fly for 4 or 5 years without landing (it does float on the water every so often)...it even can sleep while flying.