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The Boss showed up, unannounced, at a bar on the Jersey Shore and played for nearly two hours.

A video shot by a Minneapolis television crew shows U.S. soldiers examining explosives at an Iraqi weapons facility where nearly 400 tons of explosives disappeared. The timing of looting at the facility has become a central issue in the final week of the presidential election. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and NPR's Eric Westervelt.

Many of Afghanistan's growing number of destitute people are making desperate decisions as their nation spirals into a deeper poverty.

A poll released Thursday shows Democrat Charlie Crist with a seven-point lead over incumbent Republican Rick Scott in the 2014 race for Florida governor.…

The National Security Agency violated special court restrictions on the use of a database of telephone calls, but the NSA says it fixed those problems. That's the bottom line from more documents declassified by the director of National Intelligence. The document dump is part of an effort to share more details about NSA surveillance activities that were uncovered by former government contractor Edward Snowden.

When "Downton Abbey" is over, what will Anglophiles watch next? NPR's Eric Deggans talks about the offerings from Acorn TV.

Leon County Commissioners will take up a move to close a so called loophole that lets people make purchases at gun shows without having to get a...

Higher taxes and slow hiring cut into consumer purchasing last month. Analysts say is behind a disappointing March retail sales report. Host David Greene has more.

Newly released CIA documents show that the spy agency knew the whereabouts of Adolph Eichmann, as early as 1958. Eichmann, who managed the Nazi extermination of the Jews, had fled to Argentina. In 1960, Israeli agents abducted him and took him to Israel, where he was tried and executed. Robert Siegel talks with historian Timothy Naftali, who has examined the documents.

Animated and defiant, Saddam Hussein appears before an Iraqi court, declaring himself the "president of Iraq" in a show of unbroken will. The former dictator rejected the seven charges filed against him, which include the gassing of Kurds, the invasion of Kuwait and the murder of Shiite clerics. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Deborah Amos.