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There are indications that President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to head the Department of Health and Human Services. The transition team won't confirm that.

Doctors Without Borders has suspended activities in Port Au Prince, Haiti, after receiving threats from local police forces. Director of Mission Christophe Fournier provides an update.

As the transition to a new administration approaches, what is the likely impact on a decidedly nervous State Department?

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Austen Flannery, a meteorologist at National Weather Service's Tampa Bay Office, about Hurricane Milton's current path toward Florida.

Red states with lots of federally owned land have long called agencies managing them "bloated." Now, agency job cuts are affecting local economies.

She was called the IT girl of women's golf in the Great Gatsby era. Miriam Burns won the 1927 Women's Amateur championship. She retired fromcompetitive golf in 1930 when she was 26, died at 47 and was laid to rest in an unmarked Kansas city grave. That all changes on May 30th when a headstone will be placed on her grave during a memorial service that will include golf great Tom Watson and family members of Burns only grandson

British voters will go to the polls in one month in an election that may determine the future of the British welfare state. Prime Minister David Cameron will face Labour Party leader Ed Miliband.

The disability community has long worried about what would happen if special education oversight moved from the Education Department to another agency. Now, those moves are becoming more real.

A look at some of the stories coming out of town halls and board rooms across Eastern North Carolina.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, about President Biden's Federal Reserve nomination and the economic challenges the country is facing.