Lawmakers want answers from the Pentagon chief and the U.S. Navy about living conditions aboard the USS Lincoln. NPR's Michel ...

A coalition of landowners, outdoor enthusiasts and business owners that say any work in Big Bend National Park would forever ...

For the fourth year in a row, the receding Mendenhall Glacier has caused a flash flood in a river that cuts through a densely populated part of Juneau, Alaska.

The board voted to close the Washington, D.C., arts complex's main campus for a $250 million renovation — three months after ...

Last year's funding cuts to federal agencies that oversee foodborne illness outbreaks are being tested with the record cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S.

NPR's Michel Martin asks Abbas Milani, director of Iranian Studies at Stanford, why more Iranians are fleeing their country and whether there's a realistic path to end the U.S.-Iran war.

A federal judge in Boston has dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit that claimed Harvard University did not do enough to protect students on campus from antisemitism.

Europe is sweltering through its fifth heatwave this summer. It has already lasted longer than a deadly heat wave that killed thousands across Europe in 2003.

Pianist Jon Batiste has been busy. He's offering three new albums at once: one tribute to Mozart and two tributes to ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Anderson Taylor, who has become the Guinness World Record holder for youngest male museum curator. He opened a natural history museum at age 9.

Search efforts continue though hopes are fading as teams dig for survivors from the 7.4 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 250 people.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to spend up to $20 million to purchase high-tech gloves that deliver electric shocks to people they're trying to detain.