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The Olympia police officer who shot two African-American brothers during a confrontation in May will not be criminally charged.

Fire managers in the Northwest say the recent rain doesn't mean the wildfire danger is over. Some parts of the Northwest got more than an inch of rain...

Improper payments by Medicare and Medicaid are wasting billions of dollars a year, the White House budget director said. He called for urgent corrective action in a letter that is now public.

The billionaire businessman signed the RNC's loyalty pledge Thursday, promising he won't run as an independent. But there's still no guarantee he'll abide by it.

River traffic was halted on a portion of the waterway after the accident near Paducah, Ky. The maximum size of the Wednesday evening spill of clarified slurry oil is thought to be 250,000 gallons.

It has been called the new "um" or "like," but linguist Geoff Nunberg says starting sentences with "so" isn't a new trend. People have been doing it for years. We're just noticing it more now.

Roof has been charged with murdering nine people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina in June. He also faces federal hate crime charges.

Police have arrested five Rutgers players and four others, accusing them of crimes that range from assault to home invasion and rioting.

Scientists have found a fern whose parents are separated by some 60 million years of evolution. This story originally aired on February 24, 2015 on Morning Edition.

The Department of Justice says police overreacted after the shooting death of Michael Brown. Policymakers and activists are working to prevent something similar from occurring in the future.