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House Speaker Paul Ryan looks like he will avoid what would've been a government shutdown at midnight with a massive $1.1 trillion spending package. But he had to appeal to Democrats to do it.

To celebrate the centennial of America's parks system, Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson is talking to park rangers and officials across the country. First stop: Denali National Park and Preserve.

Many consumers in North America and Europe are willing to pay a premium for nutritious, organic grains. That makes the market ripe for a revival of millennia-old bread wheat, some plant breeders say.

The nets that ensnare the giant totoaba fish also trap and kill an endangered porpoise called the vaquita.

A Turkish columnist once hailed the country's leader as a champion of democracy. Now he joins many Turks in gloom and disappointment over the country's course.

A Japanese team has again reached the final four of the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. Its training involves strict discipline, relentless drilling and group responsibility.

The crash last week of an EgyptAir passenger plane flying from Paris to Cairo is not likely to help Egypt's battered tourism industry.

Police arrested 45-year-old Jason Dalton in the shooting deaths of six people in Michigan. Two other people were also shot, including a 14-year-old girl. Dalton is to be arraigned on Monday.

For more than 300 years, children have performed kabuki, Japan's classical theater, in the village of Damine. But as residents age or leave for cities, Damine is running out of young performers.

Oklahoma and Kentucky teachers are both walking out of school Monday, and teachers in other states are watching closely. In many states, teachers are organizing with and without unions.