In western North Carolina, tubing, rafting and kayaking shops are assessing whether the rivers will be safe enough to open by ...

Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.

Chilean author Alia Trabucco Zerán has written an intense novel about the kind of deep down rot that lingers, despite the ...

Vice President Kamala Harris is intensifying her campaign efforts to attract Republican and independent voters in key ...

At a hospital in Kentucky, witnesses say, a man who had been declared dead after a drug overdose was moving and visibly ...

A church and a community college are stepping up to serve as voting locations after others pulled out due to security threats ...

More than 1,300 clergy sex abuse survivors and the Archdiocese of LA have reached a settlement worth nearly $900 million. The church says no donations to parishes or schools will be go to the payouts.

Marianna Kiyanovska lives in Ukraine, but she’s reading her poetry at more than a dozen U.S. universities in October. Her latest poetry collection is called The Voices of Babyn Yar.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County Recorder, about his office's intense preparations to secure early voting in the swing state of Arizona.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Daniel Byman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and what it means for the war in ...

Vision impairment is a common problem in large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It has a serious effect on economies. One solution: providing eye glasses. But it turns out that can be tricky.

Israel's military says its troops have killed Yahya Sinwar, an architect of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. His death is being seen as a possible chance to end the war he started just over a year ago.