The Trump administration's feud with Harvard has axed research grants. A woman with a rare genetic disorder that causes blindness says crucial research may not be ready in time to save her eyesight.

AIDS orphans and vulnerable children are without support since the U.S. cut foreign assistance. A pastor has been frantically trying to find meds for an HIV-positive orphan who can no longer get them.

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady Wednesday. Members of the central bank's rate-setting committee also ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with journalist Steve Coll about the parallels between Iraq and Iran when it comes to discussions of a potential war due to an adversarial country's weapons program.

Miguel Perez, producer for NPR’s World Cafe, shares his music picks that express the nuance of Pride Month.

Pop singer Vanessa Hernandez, professionally known as NEZZA, sang the official Spanish version of the U.S. national anthem at ...

Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social ...

The two Koreas have engaged in psychological warfare since the 1960s, with weapons like huge billboard screens, loudspeakers ...

Officials from the EPA joined EGLE and other state officials at the opening of a resort on a former Superfund site in ...

Saturday around 4 p.m., troopers from the Soo Post stopped a vehicle with defective equipment on Johnston Street near ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Kate Johnson from the University of Virginia women's volleyball team about how the NCAA's plan to backpay college athletes could lead to pay inequity.

Omaha just elected its first Black mayor, giving this year's Juneteenth celebrations new energy. The city wants to mark the occasion by being a model for unity during a time of divisiveness.