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As financial markets went on a roller-coaster ride this week, individual investors watched with growing anxiety. In Seattle, members of a women's investment club say they had a good year in 2007 and won't let 2008's rocky start cause panic.

North Carolina’s dominant health insurance provider could transfer billions to a holding company instead of returning portions of that surplus to policyholders, under legislation that advanced Tuesday in the state House.

A new study shows that 1 in 4,500 travelers — particularly those who take long flights and fly often — will develop a blood clot. Although not every traveler has the same risk, doctors and even some airlines suggest staying alert and moving around in-flight.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama head into the Indiana and North Carolina primaries next month. Amy Walter, editor-in-chief of The Hotline daily political brief, talks with John Ydstie about which voters might give a boost to either Democratic presidential candidate.

The papal conclave is beginning Wednesday at the Vatican, as 133 cardinal electors undertake the solemn task of choosing the next leader of the Catholic Church.

Donald Trump was a factor in Ford's decision to cancel plans to build a new plant in Mexico. Now he has the attention of other U.S. manufacturing firms that were considering a move south.

David Lynch created off-kilter classics such as "Blue Velvet," "Wild at Heart," "Mulholland Drive" and the innovative TV series "Twin Peaks." He was 78.

UNC Asheville deployed a weather balloon ahead of Winter Storm Fern to help the National Weather Service and broadcast meteorologists predict the weather.

A dirty deed and official cover-up drive the plot in John le Carre's A Delicate Truth. The novel sets its sights on old-boy corruption and corporate criminality at the heart of the "Deep State," but critic Alan Cheuse finds this latest effort lacks the tension of le Carre's Cold War novels.

The House Appropriations Committee hears from groups that were chosen for additional scrutiny by the IRS based on their conservative-sounding names. That revelation has set off a round of investigations into the agency and their conduct. NPR's Tamara Keith reports.