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NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with state lawmakers Michele Grim of Ohio and Mike Jacobson of Nebraska about legislation to improve rail safety amid multiple derailments.

The ICC has issued warrants for the Russian president and his children's rights commissioner for alleged war crimes involving accusations that Russia has forcibly taken Ukrainian children.

The population of an endangered bird, the Everglade snail kite, has rebounded recently. Scientists it's all thanks to an invasive snail that has provided kites with a new abundant food source.

The violent birth and subsequent splintering of the Irish Republican Army is the subject of a new film called The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Director Ken Loach's uncompromising stance on class struggle has made him no stranger to controversy. But he has drawn particularly sharp criticism in England for his depiction of the struggle for Irish independence.

In the 1983 game, the Yankees were holding a trump card: an obscure rule that turned the Royals' game-winning home run into a game-loser, inspiring one of the most epic tantrums in baseball history.

Tobar says it was a "great honor" to interview the 33 Chilean miners who were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010. They lived "one of the great adventure stories of the 21st century," he says.

Heat is the most direct and perhaps most deadly effect of climate change.

The chief executives of GM, Ford and Chrysler go before the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday — ahead of this week's vote on a Democratic plan to provide their companies $25 billion in loans. Will Congress act before one of the Big Three has to declare bankruptcy?

In the contentious debate over immigration, critics often assert that immigrants and their children are not learning English as quickly as previous waves of newcomers did. In one Wisconsin town, German flourished as a dominant language and culture almost until World War II.

Last March, when we first visited Milford, N.H., to gauge residents' attitudes about the upcoming primary, the presidential race was far from people's minds. Now on the verge of Tuesday's balloting, the number of undecided voters has shrunk dramatically.