Heat kills thousands of people across the U.S. every year. The risk is especially high for the millions of Americans who live ...

Labor Day marks the unofficial kickoff of the general election season as Republicans work to maintain control of the House ...

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Rick Hasen of UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project about the Trump administration's Supreme Court appeal on the USPS plan for mail-in voting.

The U.S. and Iran traded strikes this weekend, raising tensions as Iran announced a new route in the Strait of Hormuz and President Trump claimed the U.S. controls the waterway.

Fifth graders calm school kindergartners in Los Angeles. Kids take the "bike bus" in Oklahoma. High school students take in a ...

For the first time, genetically modified pig kidneys keep two kidney failure patients alive long enough to get human kidneys.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former crime reporter John Simpson about Simpson's decision to go to clown school.

Copper peptides are one of the biggest viral trends on social media. People are smearing the electric blue tincture on their face, and even injecting it under the skin. The compound is supposed to ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio heads to Colombia, Peru and Ecuador as President Trump hails a shift to the right in regional politics and a new era of U.S. dominance.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Charlie Cook, founder of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report, about the outlook for Democrats and Republicans as midterm campaign season kicks off.

Unions are trying to figure out where they stand on AI. While some are focused on greater protections for workers, the building trades unions are already reaping benefits from the data center boom.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held meetings in Kyiv with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy on Sunday, a day after lengthy conversations with Russian President Putin in Moscow.