Reba McEntire, shown here at the CMA Awards in 2019, was rescued from a building after a staircase collapsed.Mark J. Terrill | AP Once again, country music star Reba McEntire is a survivor. She was rescued from a historical building in Atoka, Okla., when a staircase collapsed. The 66-year-old singer ...

Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic by illegally pushing sales of its addictive OxyContin painkiller. The company's headquarters in Stamford, Conn., is shown here in 2019.Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg/Getty Images A division of ...

Philip Morris International is buying Vectura, a large asthma inhaler-maker, in a move that health groups have urged Vectura shareholders to reject on both ethical and practical grounds.Igor Golovniov | SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Philip Morris International is buying British pharmaceutical firm Vectura in a deal that will see ...

Security fencing was reinstalled around the U.S. Capitol Wednesday night ahead of a planned Sept. 18 rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump. They are demanding the release of rioters arrested after the Jan. 6 attack.J. Scott Applewhite | AP Updated September 16, 2021 at 10:38 AM ET ...

Front-line caregivers wait in line to receive a Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in December at Providence Alaska Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska.Loren Holmes/Pool photo | Anchorage Daily News via AP The stark situation of COVID's impact on Alaska has affected the ability of the state's largest hospital to provide care for ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses reporters Tuesday in Sacramento after beating back the recall effort that aimed to remove him from office.Rich Pedroncelli | AP California's Gavin Newsom can now count himself among a select group of political survivors — he's just one of two governors ever to face a ...

Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to reassure China's military that the U.S. wasn't planning an attack in the final months of former President Donald Trump's term in office, according to the book Peril.Mark Wilson | Getty Images Gen. Mark Milley says he was conducting ...

Asylum-seekers camping at El Chaparral crossing port line up to be vaccinated against COVID-19 last month in Tijuana, Mexico, on the border with the U.S.Guillermo Arias | AFP via Getty Images People applying to immigrate to the U.S. will have to show they've been vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of ...

People hold Cuban, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan flags during a protest showing support for Cubans demonstrating against their government in Miami on July 18. The US. Latino population has grown significantly in the last decade.Eva Marie Uzcategui | AFP via Getty Images NPR will be covering and celebrating Latino culture and ...

A shortage of school bus drivers for the Boston Public Schools has led to some delays this month. Gov. Charlie Baker is calling up National Guard members to help alleviate the shortage in some areas of the state.David L. Ryan | The Boston Globe via Getty Images National Guard troops ...