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The 4th of July traditional hotdog eating contest got us thinking about why food and the holiday are so intertwined. Some experts have gone deep on the subject of competitive eating.

A helicopter crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on Thursday. Mayor Eric Adams has confirmed that 6 people are reported dead, including a family of tourists from Spain, with 3 children.

Police are still working to identify the vehicle and driver in the Sunday afternoon incident.

Here, some takeaways from new research that finds that families rise and fall across generations at a much slower rate than anyone thought. For example, the research finds that French-Canadian immigrants are a disadvantaged minority in the U.S.

Hamas hailed the attack without claiming responsibility, calling it a "natural response to the occupation's crimes against our people."

The federal trial against R. Kelly is nearing its end after six weeks of witness testimony. He's being charged with racketeering and trafficking, with accusations going back decades.

Putin has been declared the winner in Sunday's Russian election, giving him a fourth term as president. Critics say the vote was staged, and the only questions are over the size of Putin's majority.

Without a deal by March 1, across-the-board federal spending cuts will kick in — including deep cuts to the nation's defense budget. Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of defense for policy, and NPR's Tom Bowman discuss what sequestration might mean for the U.S. military.

Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer says before Manafort became Trump's campaign manager, he rewrote the rules of lobbying and then became entangled in the world of dictators, oligarchs and dirty money.

Asked what he would do if asked by the president to do something illegal, attorney Christopher Wray said, "First, I would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed, I would resign."