An Indonesian ferry carrying 271 people has caught fire in waters off Madura island, killing at least five people and leaving ...

An 18-month investigation by The Seattle Times, KUOW and NPR's Embedded podcast and a review of more than a dozen videos from ...

Hours of video analyzed in an 18-month investigation reveal what really happened the night Antonio Mays Jr. was shot at the ...

About 1 in 4 babies in the Pakistani fishing settlement of Rehri Goth are born prematurely. Researchers are trying to figure ...

NPR asked an aspiring scientist in Philadelphia to interview an adult who is living his dream about his career in ...

A mountaineering team with climbers from around the world, including the U.S., was attempting to climb one of the tallest ...

Ballistic missiles tore into five districts of the Ukrainian capital before dawn Saturday. President Trump is now walking ...

The pro-immigration leader is facing backlash at home and abroad after roughly 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into the ...

Margo Howard had a lot of life experience and used it to offer advice for years as "Dear Prudence" for Slate. She died this ...

A dramatic rescue by a young lifeguard in California went viral on social media. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Pono Barnes of the L.A. County Fire Department about the dangers lifeguards face.

It's a bold new experiment and it's already won a prize. Residents in a jam-packed slum, many of them living in one-room tin shacks, help design their apartments in a brand new building.

The FDA is poised to render a decision on Moderna's mRNA-based flu shot, which could be the first of its kind to market. The ...