After small pox was eradicated and vaccinations against the disease came to an end, people in parts of Africa started getting sick with something rarely seen before - mpox. Researchers eventually ...

Barbara Taylor Bradford, the author of A Woman of Substance and dozens of other best-selling novels, has died. She was 91.

Lyle and Erik Menendez appeared virtually in court as a judge decided next steps in their resentencing hearing, which is more uncertain now that the DA who recommended it has been voted out of office.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, who's finding her way around Washington as an incoming freshman House Democrat.

American religious institutions are facing a crisis: they don't have enough clergy to lead congregations, particularly in rural areas.

The U.S. appears looks like Taiwan's most important security guarantor against neighboring China — though President-elect Trump has signaled he will be tough on both China and on Taiwan.

The United Nations' annual climate conference, COP 29, has wrapped. The goal was to raise money from to help developing nations cut climate pollution and prepare for future threats.

The move came after federal prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss both the Jan. 6 and Mar-a-Lago documents cases against ...

Some six years after a devastating fire, work is nearing completion at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Almost every part of the cathedral has undergone restoration and rebuilding.

Earhart, her navigator and their plane disappeared during their attempted 1937 circumnavigation of the globe. A deep sea ...

The move was widely expected after Trump's election victory, and is in line with longstanding Justice Department policy that ...

During her years as a military linguist, Bailey Williams pushed her body to extremes. Her new book is Hollow: A Memoir of My ...