A federally funded database helps track long-term, missing-person cases. Yet an NPR investigation finds that even in states legally required to use it, more than 2,000 people haven't been added.

In some parts of the U.S., drug deaths have plunged to levels not seen since the fentanyl crisis exploded. Addiction experts say communities still face big challenges.

His sinister, surreal vision of America made him a leading counterculture auteur — with movies such as Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive, and the groundbreaking TV series Twin Peaks.

A powerful earthquake struck off the Northern California coast, triggering tsunami warnings that were later canceled. Several aftershocks continued to rattle the area off Eureka.

The CBS News vice presidential debate will be the only time Ohio Sen. JD Vance and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz get to face off ahead of the 2024 election. Here's what to expect.

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, a Turkish American woman and a recent graduate of the University of Washington, was allegedly shot and killed in the occupied West Bank on Friday.

The ABC News presidential debate will be the first time Vice President Harris and former President Donald Trump face off ahead of the 2024 election. Here's what to expect.

The Wall Street Journal reporter and the former U.S. Marine have been released by Russia in exchange for Russian prisoners held in the U.S. and Europe, in what the U.S. calls a historic prisoner swap.

In a prime-time national address Sunday night, President Joe Biden said “we can’t, we must not go down” the road of political violence in America after Saturday’s attempted assassination of Donald Trump.

The 20-year-old gunman came within a matter of inches of killing the former president, but investigators are still struggling to understand what may have motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks.