Africa races to contain a fast-spreading Ebola outbreak threatening 10 countries as infections spill from eastern Congo into ...

Texas' runoff primary elections are Tuesday. The race generating the most attention – and money – is the Texas Republican U.S. Senate primary between incumbent Senator John Cornyn and Texas Attorney ...

RaDonda Vaught was convicted of negligent homicide after dispensing the wrong drug to a patient. She now gives speeches about ...

President Trump took to social media Saturday and said the U.S. and Iran are close to deal on ending the war. But the president didn't offer details and it's not yet clear where Iran stands.

There's an effort on Capitol Hill to increase funding for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program, which awards funding to ...

The number of cases — and deaths — in Bangladesh is staggering. As of Sunday, 528 have died, mostly children. How did this ...

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on ...

The Trump administration is set to repeal a decades-old conservation mandate known as the Roadless Rule, opening up millions of acres of national forests for more logging.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Dennis Carroll, PhD. about the current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda and how funding cuts to USAID have affected the response.

At least two people were killed and 77 injured in the attack, which included the use of a powerful hypersonic ballistic ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks to Alison Willmore, a film critic for New York magazine and Vulture, about the highlights of this year's Cannes Film Festival in France.

Data shows that summer jobs programs for teenagers have big impacts in reducing crime. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks about it with economist Sara Heller.