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Authorities in Pennsylvania say all patients, staff and visitors were evacuated safely from a hospital near Scranton last night after a fire broke out there.
The flames engulfed a section of the Lehigh Valley Hospital before first responders could tamp down the fire.
The cause is under investigation.
The National Institutes of Health is entering into talks to convert the largest primate research center in the U.S.
As Amelia Templeton reports, that facility is in Oregon.
The International Olympic Committee says it's open to the idea of moving future Winter Games to January because of global warming.
Shifting the calendar would likely disrupt schedules for World Cup ski races and similar events ahead of the Games.
The opening ceremony for this year's Winter Olympics in Italy is tomorrow in Milan.
I'm Dave Mattingly, NPR News in Washington.
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Dave Mattingly.
Congress has ended the partial government shutdown.
The House approved a spending package of more than a trillion dollars yesterday to fund several of the government's largest departments through the end of September.
Twenty-one Democrats in the House voted in favor.
A stopgap measure funds the Department of Homeland Security through February 13th.
That gives lawmakers a short window to negotiate changes sought by Democrats on federal immigration enforcement.
They include a ban on officers wearing face masks and mandatory judicial warrants for making arrests.
The partial shutdown ended on day four.