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Energy giant TXU agrees to be acquired by a group of private-equity firms in a deal worth $32 billion. If approved, it would be the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. history. The bidders are making concessions to environmentalists to help push the deal through.

Oklahoma has proposed a new car tag compact deal to save negotiations with the Cherokee Nation.

The two high-end department stores hope together they would wield more power to counter luxury brands, which increasingly flex their muscles over retailers.

Fourteen companies in total have now reached what the administration calls most-favored-nation pricing deals.

The federal government remains shut down, in what is now the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Reporters from the NPR Network are digging into the ways the government shutdown is playing out in their region.

New York City officials announced the city will no longer take all Social Security checks from children to pay for foster care. Last year NPR and The Marshall Project investigated the common practice.

Many companies mislead by using accounting practices that make their environmental goals relatively meaningless or exclude parts of their businesses in their calculations, NewClimate Institute finds.

Facebook's head of security policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said that the company is working harder than ever to counteract efforts to interfere in the 2020 presidential election.

Amid the partial government shutdown, we hear from House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., about funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Marianne Williamson by far gets most of her money from women. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and Andrew Yang get relatively little of their money from women.

A court in Madrid is due to rule next month on murder and terrorism charges against an ex-Salvadoran military officer alleged to have played a key role in the executions of five Spanish priests.

Senate Republicans are putting together a legislative package to address the U.S. policing system. NPR's Noel King talks to Republican Senator James Lankford, who is part of this working group.