When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer ...

Four states so far have passed laws prohibiting the use of public money for no-strings cash aid. Advocates for basic income ...

Venzuela's opposition finally gets to name a candidate to take on President Nicolas Maduro in July's election. The authoritarian leader has used all sorts of underhanded tricks to seize the advantage.

Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

AKINWOTU: In what was to be one of his final interviews, he warned that the government was using the alleged attack as a pretext for a clampdown. Wakit Tama, a prominent civil society group in Chad, ...

The African country of Chad goes holds its presidential election in the next few days — one of the first military led governments in the region to do so. Will the vote bring stability or more chaos?

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

Nearly half of the people who suffered heat-related deaths in Arizona last year lived outdoors without shelter, but public health officials and lawmakers are starting to pay more attention to the risk ...

Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.

Hope Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors may question her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.