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The state's governor called the news "disturbing" but said there is no health threat at the moment. Hanford has been in existence since the 1940s, when the site was used to prepare plutonium for bombs.

Royal Dutch Shell has announced plans to eliminate 6,500 jobs as slumping oil prices force the industry to make adjustments. Shell's profits fell by more than 30 percent in the second quarter.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won narrowly, but can he expand his base? Pete Buttigieg again did well, but in another largely white state. And the story of the night was Sen. Amy Klobuchar's third-place finish.

Sanders laid out his brand of Democratic socialism in a speech Thursday, explaining how it informs with his views on higher education, poverty, health care, the minimum wage and more.

The Washington Commanders might be sold for a record $6 billion. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Dave Zirin, sports editor at The Nation.

More than 1,500 people who participated in the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol four years ago got a pardon from President Trump this week. Pamela Hemphill, age 71, turned down the offer of clemency.

Rescue operations are underway in the city of Tainan, on the southern end of Taiwan, after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake shook the area.

Senate Republicans blocked a plan to move forward on legislation Friday to establish a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is holding the first in a series of televised hearings tonight.