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The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two was undergoing a test flight when it crashed in the California Desert. The spaceship is designed to take tourists to space.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Bill Hayton of the U.K.-based policy institute Chatham House, about the political shakeup after Vietnam's president resigned amid a corruption scandal

A powerful suicide bombing in a mosque in Pakistan has killed at least 59 people and wounded dozens more. Well into the evening, medics dug victims out of the rubble.

The incident early Saturday in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood was the latest of several mass shootings in California.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to cap late fees at $8. Banking groups say the proposal would result in higher costs for consumers.

The storied military academy will take down likenesses of Robert E. Lee as part of a Department of Defense directive to do away with installations that "commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy."

The Democratic-controlled Ways and Means Committee has released former President Trump's tax returns from his time in office, ending a multi-year legal battle for the information.

Russian forces fired its largest air barrage into Ukraine in nearly two weeks Thursday as Ukrainian air defenses repelled several drones and missiles throughout the attack.

Audie Cornish speaks with John Conkling, technical director of the American Pyrotechnics Association, about why it's so difficult to achieve the color blue in fireworks.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Emily Wagster Pettus of The Associated Press about a rare, long-track tornado that left a trail of devastation across western Mississippi on Friday night.