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Oil industry representatives are criticizing the decision, but analysts say the shale revolution will buy the industry time to develop safe technology in the threatened environment.

A Boy Scout troop in Montana got its camping gear back. After taking items worth about $7,000, the thieves let the Scouts know where they could find their belongings.

The snowstorm hitting the Northeast is having a major impact in Boston. Steve Inskeep checks in with WBUR's Anne Mostue for the latest on how residents and local officials are handling the storm.

This week President Obama traveled to India with his wife Michelle to meet with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. But Mr. Modi's wife was nowhere to be seen.

Lost in a deep depression, Marie Mutsuki Mockett visited a temple owned by her mother's family near Fukushima. There, she found traditions and ways of thought that helped her work through her grief.

The group No More has been using public service announcements to raise awareness about domestic violence.

The "Friendship Nine" were college students arrested for a sit-in at a South Carolina lunch counter in 1961. A judge has cleared them of a five-decades-old trespassing conviction.

At a mandatory NFL media appearance for the upcoming Super Bowl, Marshawn Lynch stuck to one response Tuesday: "I'm just here so I won't get fined."

The band's moody, autumnal "Arms Unknown" receives a welcome jolt of gritty electric guitar.

New research shows that teenagers' brains aren't fully insulated, so the signals travel slowly when they need to make decisions. Neuroscientist Frances Jensen, who wrote The Teenage Brain, explains.