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An estimated 2 million Americans use wheelchairs or motorized scooters. For some, obstacles such as stairs, elevated curbs and rocky terrain may no longer pose such a steep challenge. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the iBOT, a wheelchair that climbs stairs and bounds over curbs. NPR's Joe Shapiro reports.

A new set of documents from Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito contains his argument that executive-branch officials have immunity when ordering domestic wiretaps in violation of the law. Other documents from his years at the Justice Department reveal a restrictive position on racial discrimination.

Debt relief for Africa will be on the agenda when the leaders of the G8 nations meet in Scotland later this week. Kenya, which owes billions to foreign creditors, allocates almost a third of its budget to pay debts. But Kenya is unlikely to have its debts cancelled at the upcoming summit.

There are 35 presidential candidates and 44 parties running in Haiti's first elections since former President Jean Bertrand Aristide's ouster last year.

North Carolina legislators are rushing to assemble replacement redistricting maps to comply with a state Supreme Court ruling that found recently approved boundaries violated the constitution by giving Republicans outsized favoritism.

A new North Carolina state audit says a nonprofit foundation that received $83 million to lend to small businesses struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t create procedures to ensure the public money was used properly.

A love letter to Quinn Christopherson's younger self that yearns with sweet specificity.

As part of the series "Vacation Horror Stories," Mary and Chris Darrigo tell the story about their honeymoon to an island resort where each day something horrible happened — from an earthquake to two falls with visits to the hospital and a dead woman in the next lounge chair.

Home Depot says it had "one of the best quarters in recent history." It credited the recovery in the housing market. Retailer J.C. Penney's quarterly revenue tumbled 12 percent.

A day after FireEye was hacked, the European Medicines Agency was also hacked, leading to the theft of Pfizer vaccine documents.