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There's potentially some good news about Ebola: While cases are still rising in Sierra Leone, the outbreak shows signs of slowing in Liberia. Communities are banding together to get Ebola out.

October has arrived, and with it baseball's postseason playoffs. NPR's Scott Simon breaks down the division series with Bloomberg's Kavitha Davidson.

The Senate's "torture report" finds that the CIA conducted brutal interrogations of detainees in the years after 9/11, misled elected leaders, and got little useful information from the harsh tactics.

Oil is big business in Oklahoma, and the industry has been a boon for many cities here. But there are concerns that techniques used for extracting oil are behind a surge in temblors in the state.

Frustrated with large multinational corporations that escape British taxes, the town of Crickhowell has decided to make a point by doing exactly the same thing.

Most Syrian refugees are children, and many have lost parents. One result is a huge demand for the few places available in orphanages that have been set up in neighboring Turkey.

The Obama administration might soon make millions of workers newly eligible for overtime, but experts disagree over how the new rules should look.

Doctors performed more in vitro fertilization procedures and delivered more IVF babies in 2012 than ever before, researchers reported Monday. The rate of multiple births has declined, however, as couples have chosen to use fewer embryos during IVF.

The actions announced Thursday are complicated and will lead to many changes in immigration policy. Here we try to explain it plainly.

The Texas governor leaves a race he once led. He throws his support to the former House speaker. "There is no viable path forward for me," Perry told supporters this morning in South Carolina.