As questions swirl around the fate of the secretary of defense, former colleagues paint a troubling picture of Hegseth's ...

The historic Clayborn Temple was destroyed in a Monday morning fire in Memphis. It was a landmark of the Civil Rights movement and was a gathering place of striking sanitation workers in 1968.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy's remarks this month on autism.

Print artist Ana Inciardi is making vending machines fun again. Instead of snacks, Inciardi's devices produce prints you can collect for the low price of four quarters.

Deaf students are less likely to find jobs in the sciences, health care or teaching. For years, the U.S. government tried to change that. But the grant program to help was just ended by the Trump ...

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, one Seattle man embarks on a journey to a remote mountain in Laos where his father was last seen during a secret mission in the war.

The start date of the conclave to elect the new pope has been set for Wednesday, May 7. Here's what to look for as cardinals prepare to elect the new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics.

One month after a devastating earthquake rocked Myanmar, officials report about 3,800 deaths but many people say they are still waiting for news of their missing loved ones.

Power is slowly coming back on in large swaths of Spain and Portugal after a power outage caused Monday afternoon chaos.

In his first interview since being detained, pro-Palestinian advocate Mohsen Mahdawi tells NPR he was arrested after arriving for what he thought was a citizenship test.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order aimed at identifying sanctuary cities, part of a broader effort ...

Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by ...