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Volkswagen's top U.S. executive was taken to task on Thursday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It was the first congressional hearing since the company's emissions scandal broke.

Billed as a "companion" to major Senate sentencing legislation released last week, the top Republican and Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee say the proposal comes after months of negotiations.

Wal-Mart, the nation's biggest company, affects the lives of millions of workers and shoppers. So its U.S. leadership change is attracting lots of interest. Here are some theories about what happened.

The U.N.'s climate science panel has finished its report on global warming. NPR's Rachel Martin speaks to Michael Oppenheimer about the conclusion that humans are altering the Earth's climate.

An investigation by NPR and Colorado Public News reveals soldiers who return from Iraq and Afghanistan with mental health disorders are being dismissed without treatment or health care benefits.

Things have gotten so bad in the small Florida city of Opa-locka that the state has taken over its finances and city leaders are the subject of two corruption investigations.

The International Association of Athletics Federations said that despite "good progress," Russia hasn't done enough to address a "deeply rooted culture of tolerance — or worse — for doping."

Investigations into Russian election meddling and Trump's claims of being wiretapped are getting underway in Congress. But Democrats and Republicans aren't on the same page.

After weeks of reports that Russia is violating a nuclear arms treaty with the U.S., the Pentagon says that is indeed the case. Top nuclear arms officials are telling Congress that Moscow is deploying prohibited intermediate range nuclear weapons that could be used to attack Europe. It's another nuclear headache for a new administration also grappling with defiant nuclear weapons moves by North Korea.

An Afghan official said Saturday at least 94 ISIS members were killed, including top commanders, when the nearly 22,000-pound "Mother of All Bombs" was dropped in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.