The South Korean announcement on Thursday came days after its President Lee Jae Myung threatened unspecified punitive steps ...

The Canadian writer Anne Carson – known for her singular approach to classical and modern poetry – was awarded the Nobel ...

Boise State University reports ten rapes occurred on college property last calendar year. As sexual assault on school ...

A former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American ...

In Los Angeles County, the nation's most populous, a new system could screen hospital patients for financial aid, preventing ...

Russian strikes in eastern Ukraine have killed 30 people and injured at least 18, according to authorities. The attacks ...

Federal prosecutors say a teenager is under arrest, under suspicion of plotting a mass shooting at Minnesota's Mall of America.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with former NOAA official Carolyn Gruber about vulnerabilities in the infrastructure of coastal cities during extreme weather events.

Isaias became the first hurricane of the Atlantic season late Wednesday. It's expected to make landfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast Friday.

President Trump said he wants to develop one of his Florida golf courses into a presidential retreat where his successors can ...

The National Hurricane Center said late Wednesday that the hurricane was on track to strike the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the ...

Hundreds of wells in the Treasure and Payette Valleys will have water levels measured this fall in the first widespread water ...