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A Facebook Live video brought to the attention of Chicago police shows a bound man being tortured by four captors. The four were charged with hate crimes and other felonies on Thursday.

2016 was a year of failure for political polling in several Western democracies. France, Britain and the U.S. were all taken by surprise after polls underestimated the support for conservative presidential candidates and Brexit. Now, pollsters in all three countries are reflecting on what went wrong.

Donald Trump has nominated Jay Clayton, a Wall Street lawyer, to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. Critics say it's another example of Trump packing his Cabinet with Wall Street insiders.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Ben Santer, a climate scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, about his open letter to Donald Trump on climate change.

Nearly 500 Korean immigrants working to build a battery factory in Georgia were arrested.

New York state lawmakers face numerous issues when returning to Capitol on Wednesday.

With the Christmas and New Year’s holidays now behind them, Canadian lawmakers at all levels of government are beginning to look ahead to the future of North American free trade.

Trump says the U.S. will run Venezuela for now after the capture of Nicolas Maduro, a look at South American country's uncertain future, Maduro and his wife to appear in court in New York Monday.

The Kremlin has a new "Explanatory Dictionary of the State Language of the Russian Federation." We look into some of the revised definitions of common words.

Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.