Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday morning in Rome, signaling that the 133 cardinal ...

Most Americans balk at the idea of charging women who get abortions with homicide, but post-Roe, militant anti-abortion ...

President Trump has proposed slashing federal scientific funding. Economists say the long-term consequences could be dire.

Army veteran Harry Miller was stationed in Germany when the Nazis surrendered. Upon hearing the news, he recalls that ...

The presidents of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers say the political climate has added ...

More than half of Black and Latina women in Los Angeles who participated in a new study regularly used personal-care products ...

Hundreds of thousands of Velella velella, more commonly known as by-the-wind-sailors, are drifting onto the coastline.

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Praveen Donthi, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, about where the fighting between India and Pakistan could lead.

Presidenti Trump did not reveal the trading partner, saying only that it was "A BIG, AND HIGHLY RESPECTED, COUNTRY" and that ...

City councils in Boise and Salt Lake City have added LGBTQ+ pride flags to the banners that can be flown on city properties in defiance of recent state laws that restrict which flags can be displayed.

NPR talks with filmmaker Dion Nissenbaum about the documentary "Who Killed Shireen?" In it, the Israeli soldier who allegedly killed Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is identified.

A troubled private prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, was shut down in 2021. Now, that facility and other prisons closed because of serious problems are set to reopen as migrant detention centers.