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Democratic Congresswoman Joyce Beatty of Ohio filed a lawsuit challenging the renaming of the memorial to President John Kennedy to the Trump-Kennedy Center, calling the action "unlawful."

NPR's Michel Martin checks in with Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan as it celebrates its first Christmas service since a devastating fire in 2020.

In line with national crime trends, violent crime also dropped in Philadelphia in 2025. NPR's Leila Fadel asks Kevin Bethel, the city's police commissioner, about the decline.

From Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" to John Lennon's "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)," there's a lot of yearning in Christmas songs. But why?

A Christmas Eve Powerball drawing could add new meaning to holiday cheer as millions of players hope to cash in on the $1.7 billion prize.

The State Department announced Tuesday it was barring five Europeans it accused of leading efforts to pressure U.S. tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints.

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the Department of Health and Human Services over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.

The explosion collapsed a part of the building and happened just as a utility crew had been on site looking for a gas leak at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township, just outside Philadelphia.

Jon Berger lives in Wilmington with his wife Liz and his two amazing daughters Lillian (19) who is a sophomore at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Eve (16) who is a junior John T Hoggard High School. In 2024 Jon was the Democratic candidate for North Carolina State Representative from District 20 in Wilmington. In September 2023 he retired from the U.S. Government after almost 30 years of service. From 1995 until 2002 he was a legislative policy aide in the U.S. Congress, serving first for Representative Gary Ackerman (D-NY), and then for Senator Jack Reed (D-RI). In September 2002 he entered the U.S. Department of State as a Foreign Service Officer. He and his family were posted abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark; Belgrade, Serbia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Tel Aviv, Israel; as well as a domestic assignment in Washington, D.C. His final posting in the State Department - and what brought the family to Wilmington NC - was as a Foreign Policy Advisor to Marine Special Operations Command (MARSOC) at Camp Lejeune, the largest US Marine Corps base in the world. He is the recipient of several State Department meritorious awards for his work overseas.

Since retiring in 2023 he joined the Board of Creating Friendships for Peace, a peace-building/dialogue group that brings teenagers from both sides of the conflict in Cyprus and Israel to the United States for a three week program and homestay with American families; he volunteers on the awards committee of the North Carolina Heroes Fund, a veteran service organization that provides financial assistance to veterans in need; and as of May 2025 he has joined the board of WHQR, Wilmington’s local affiliate station for National Public Radio.

Vince Zampella, co-creator of the hit Call of Duty video games, has died in a Los Angeles car crash.