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  • Insurgents Kill 17 Iraqis During Violent Weekend
    Insurgents in Tikrit kill 17 Iraqis who worked for the U.S. Army. In all, more than 40 Iraqis have been killed in the past two days. The U.S. embassy says attacks on the road to Baghdad's airport remain commonplace. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.
  • Iraq Bombing Kills 17; Turkish Workers Kidnapped
    Violence continues in Iraq. A bomb in Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, claims 17 lives. And the Arab TV network al-Jazeera reports that suspected militants have kidnapped three Turkish workers and are threatening to behead them within 72 hours. Hear NPR's Andrea Seabrook.
  • Blast Kills 17 in Iraq; Three Turks Kidnapped
    At least 17 Iraqis die and more than 40 are injured in a bombing in Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad. And three Turks are the latest victims of insurgent attacks on foreign civilians in Iraq. The Arab TV network Al-Jazeera reports that a suspected militant group is threatening to behead the captives within 72 hours unless Turkey ends support for U.S.-led operations in Iraq. NPR News reports.
  • Vice Prime Minister and chairman of the government commission to investigate the causes of the MH17 crash Hennadiy Zubko, right, speaks at a briefing for journalists in Kiev, Ukraine, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2015. Investigators said the Buk missile that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 exploded less than a meter from the cockpit, killing the two pilots and the purser inside in an instant and breaking off the front of the plane. The tragedy that killed all 298 people aboard the plane on July 17, 2014, wouldn’t have happened if anyone had thought to close the airspace of eastern Ukraine to passenger planes as fighting raged below, the Dutch Safety Board said. (Sergei Chuzavkov/AP Photo)
    New Report Unveils Details On Flight MH17
    The Dutch Safety Board is sharing new details on the Malaysia Airlines flight that was shot down by a missile over Ukraine in July 2014.
  • Luggage and personal belongings from Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 lie in a field on July 20, 2014 in Grabovo, Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed killing all 298 on board including 80 children. The aircraft was allegedly shot down by a missile and investigations continue over the perpetrators of the attack. (Rob Stothard/Getty Images)
    Crash Investigation Expert Weighs In On Flight MH17
    The former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board discusses the steps that would normally be taken after a plane crash.
  • COVID-19 in Florida: 17 New Cases Announced
    On Thursday, Florida Department of Health officials announced 17 new cases of coronavirus in the state. That's the largest single-day jump in COVID-19…
  • Newly emerged adult cicadas dry their wings May 16, 2004 at a park in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
    It's Time! 17-Year Cicadas Are About To Emerge
    Brood V cicadas will soon come out in parts of Ohio, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
  • 'Lucky Larry' The 17-Pound Lobster Goes Free
    Estimated to be at least 70 years old, the lobster that was trapped and sold to a restaurant in Connecticut caught a lucky break. Don MacKenzie bought him and sent him back out to sea. For a lobster to live this long and avoid lobster traps, Mackenzie said, he doesn't deserve a bib and butter.
  • NC-17 Rating Can Be A Death Sentence For Movies
    Audie Cornish talks with Los Angeles Times staff writer Steven Zeitchik about his recent article on the NC-17 movie rating. Films rated NC-17 face stigma in the marketplace — some theaters won't show them and some newspapers won't carry ads for them. But, as Zeitchik writes, that's not what the Motion Picture Association of America intended when it created the rating over 20 years ago.
  • The IRS is expected to push back the tax filing deadline for a second year as the coronavirus pandemic continues and with a number of last-minute changes to tax law.
    IRS Postpones Tax Filing Deadline To May 17
    It is the second consecutive year the agency has given taxpayers more time to file their returns because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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