Two years ago, scientists surveyed the floor of Lake Michigan looking for shipwrecks. They found something mysterious and unexpected — a cluster of sinkholes on the lakebed.

Iowa now has a six-week abortion ban. Some Iowa college students say schools aren’t doing enough to ensure access to emergency contraceptives and birth control. So they’re taking it on themselves.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Daniel Byman, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, about the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and what it means for the war in ...

Many homes were damaged or destroyed in North Carolina during Hurricane Helene and many more remain at risk from future storms. That's in part because state lawmakers have rejected or delayed efforts ...

To have a shot at the White House, Democrats need to win one of Nebraska's five Electoral College votes. Here's how they're trying to do that.

Marianna Kiyanovska lives in Ukraine, but she’s reading her poetry at more than a dozen U.S. universities in October. Her latest poetry collection is called The Voices of Babyn Yar.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Stephen Richer, the Republican Maricopa County Recorder, about his office's intense preparations to secure early voting in the swing state of Arizona.

Vision impairment is a common problem in large parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. It has a serious effect on economies. One solution: providing eye glasses. But it turns out that can be tricky.

Former President Donald Trump faced some tough questioning from Latino voters Wednesday night. He largely sidestepped those questions in his answers and instead stuck to his broader campaign themes.

A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy was allegedly beaten and tased by Phoenix police officers this summer, in a violent ...

The suits are to be used for NASA’s Artemis III mission, which will mark humankind’s first return to the moon since 1972. It ...

A textile company in Southern China has reset the Guinness World Record for the largest pair of jeans. The pants are over 250 feet long.