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The DOGE team is aiming to cut 8% from next year's defense budget, officials tell NPR.

Brazil's economy is still going strong compared to the U.S. and Europe. The country's unemployment rate is just 6 percent — with companies looking overseas to fill top-end jobs.

The last time the U.S. ranked No. 1 in a key economic index was 2008. Key issues cited in the 2016 report: America's problems with its infrastructure, health and primary education systems.

Wednesday's Christmas Eve drawing ended the lottery game's three-month stretch without a top-prize winner. Final ticket sales pushed the jackpot higher, making it the second-largest in U.S. history.

Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat serving on the House Armed Services Committee, says Trump administration officials offered "vague talk" in briefing about the long-term strategy for Venezuela.

Summer is hot in Rio, but this is hotter than normal. Mercury could top 107 degrees. And the record heat is triggering alerts and safety warnings.

Rock critic KEN TUCKER reviews "War & Peace" the new album by Syd Straw, the singer with the New York cult band the Golden Paliminos.

A new Congress will be sworn in tomorrow, the 107th Congress to meet under the United States Constitution. It will have a narrow majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives and will be split exactly 50-50 between the two major parties in the Senate. The leadership will look much the same as in the last Congress, and that's true in both parties and in both chambers, but there will be differences at the committee level -- and those differences may matter a great deal for President Elect George W. Bush. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports from the Capitol.

We asked top health care experts to tell us America's biggest health care problems. Then we asked: Does the current Republican plan fix them? For the most part, the answer was no.

The April deadline comes around every year. Still, with just days left before taxes are due, many people continue to put off filing. The boxes of receipts, stacks of W-2s and 1099s are daunting enough. Add in row after row of fill-in boxes on the 1040, and it's no wonder many people procrastinate.