Officials are seeking at least $1 million in damages from the owners of the tanker that hit a cruise ship last week. The ...

Coal miners who are exposed to silica dust are at a higher risk of black lung disease. Despite decades of advocacy, new efforts to regulate the toxic dust are under threat.

A year ago in November, New Mexico became the first state to offer free childcare to every eligible family, regardless of ...

In several states, Democrats took control of legislatures that had been divided and they weakened GOP dominance in others.

The film Being Heumann tells the lesser-known story of the mother of the disability rights movement. A new generation of ...

Some college football games were delayed a few hours on Saturday or postponed to Sunday. And in Oklahoma at least, there will ...

The U.S. has lost its status as a country where measles is eliminated, according to researchers with direct knowledge of the ...

A new Florida law that prohibits taxpayer dollars from going toward diversity initiatives has prompted Delray Beach to cancel ...

The U.S. Commerce Department is under scrutiny for clearing Chinese companies to handle Nvidia chips, despite national security concerns from cabinet officials and U.S. intelligence agencies.

Have you ever wondered where phone etiquette or the idea for the first social network came from? Author James Gleick talks about his new book, The Telephone.

NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Blue Ridge Public Radio's Gerard Albert III about his new podcast A Man-Made Disaster.

French Malagasy pianist, composer, and producer Mathis Picard releases his newest album, The Sound Orchestra.