After her car key broke, Betsy Cornwell was stranded and all alone. Then the unlikeliest of heroes came to her aid.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks with actor Patrick Dempsey about his efforts to raise money for cancer treatment and prevention.

More people are getting cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, and surviving, thanks to rapid advancement in care. Many will have ...

The creators behind the viral TikTok account @lifeonfilm.27 give film cameras to strangers all over the world. In September, they handed one to one of the most powerful men in the world.

An NPR investigation finds thousands of veterans were pushed into high-cost mortgages by a program that was meant to help ...

The SS United States, a record-breaking American ocean liner from the 1950s, will take its final voyage from Philadelphia to the Gulf of Mexico this week.

A case of H5 bird flu is believed to be detected in a human in Canada for the first time, health officials said Saturday. A ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a decree Sunday ...

The incident follows a string of other recent deadly shootings surrounding homecoming events at schools in Southern states.

Bobby Allison, the Hall of Fame NASCAR driver who was one of the stock car racing's most iconic faces, has died. He was 86. During a nearly three-decade-long career, Allison won 85 races.

On Prince of Wales Island in Alaska, wildlife managers are trying new techniques to count local wolves so they can determine how many can be hunted. Limiting the quota is controversial in the ...