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The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on security for judges, in the wake of attacks in Illinois and Georgia. Witnesses include Judge Joan Lefkow of Illinois, whose mother and husband were killed by a former litigant.

Alabama is beginning to recover after Thursday's tornadoes. A National Weather Service official says a twister carved a 50- mile path across the state.

Ike is churning toward the Gulf Coast of Texas. Storm surge and extreme flooding as far north as Houston are major threats. Mark Fox, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, says the storm surge will likely be as bad as those caused by Hurricane Katrina.

The United States has never seen a moment like this one, the Pew Center says: sustained combat for a decade, and a small fraction of American men and women in uniform. A new Pew study says that's led to some different views on the wars, the value of military service — and even the subject of patriotism.

NPR attended a career fair in Utah where the Department of Homeland Security was looking to boost its ranks.

Appointments with health professionals for obesity drug consultations are way up, according to data from Zocdoc, a provider of scheduling services.

Retirees on the state's Medicare Advantage will face higher out-of-pocket maximums next year, as well as higher copays for many medical services.

The Trump administration is set to repeal a decades-old conservation mandate known as the Roadless Rule, opening up millions of acres of national forests for more logging.

A new report from a financial services company finds that only one-third of millionaires consider themselves to be wealthy.

The conflict has not only pitted the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad against a band of rebels, but drawn the U.S., Iran, Russia and Turkey, among others, into a complex proxy war.