Those questions get at people's values and fears, or get them to open up about their challenges and what brings them joy ...

For Indigenous Peoples' Day, the Up First newsletter is recognizing the work NPR's member stations do to uplift Indigenous ...

Aid organizations are ramping up their efforts to send food into Gaza on Monday. Crowds of Palestinians surrounded trucks carrying aid into southern Gaza over the weekend. And thousands of people are ...

The Trump administration sent permanent layoff notices to more than 4,000 federal workers during the shutdown.

More than 350,000 American kids are now wards of the state, meaning the government has assumed the parental role for these foster children.

Brown University professor and cultural anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte is one of this year's MacArthur fellowship winners for her work exploring political and moral ambiguities of border regions.

The organization educates, trains and prepares Black musicians from across the country for the classical music world.

In South Carolina, more than 150 unvaccinated schoolkids are under quarantine after being exposed to measles. Across the U.S.

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why ...

At 92, Cameroon's President aul Biya is running for an eighth term on Sunday — a reminder of how Africa's aging leaders ...

Israel carried out airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday, killing one person, wounding seven and briefly cutting a ...

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.