Global climate talks started today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producing country that borders Russia and Iran on ...

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions ...

A study of cells from 84 brains finds that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially ...

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

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

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

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 Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

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

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.