Billions of dollars worth of gold is held in Turkish households outside the banking system. The government aims to convince citizens to put it into the mainstream financial system to help the economy.

Over the past week, fears of AI wiping out humanity are surging. But could it happen? And if so, how?

NPR gains rare access to the Israel-occupied zone of southern Lebanon.

A federal appeals court panel in D.C. hears arguments Tuesday on the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrant truckers. Critics say that will do little to make the nation's roads safer.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Bill Gates, the former Microsoft CEO turned philanthropist, about his contributions to AI equity initiatives -- and his criticisms of an AI-powered future world.

A group of former campaign and Senate staffers for John Fetterman say they will soon begin dropping damaging stories about the Pennsylvania Democrat. Many of his constituents are already fed up.

Residents in Louisiana near SpaceX's next launch site are concerned about the project's impact on the environment and say they were kept in dark about the deal.

China has made developing and selling humanoid robots an economic priority, but getting robots to work requires hours of repetitive "training" done by people to create data about the physical world.

The average American family made more money last year than in 2024, while the number of people living in poverty fell slightly, according to a new report from the Census Bureau. The annual snapshot of ...

The Kennedy Center's board of directors on Tuesday voted to close the historic arts center in a meeting that began just ...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman said his office spoke with Reiner's siblings and took their wishes into ...

Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie introduced articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Tuesday ...