A small North Carolina town is suing Duke Energy for costs from climate change, claiming the utility knew its fossil fuel ...

South Korea's president faces calls to resign or to be impeached after he briefly imposed martial law over the country. And, ...

Opposition parties have filed a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol and plans for rallies in major cities are underway.

Kolwezi has some of the world's largest copper and cobalt reserves and that makes it a key location at the heart of the U.S.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Hani Almadhoun about the death of his brother Mahmoud, who ran a soup kitchen in Gaza.

Influencers and content creators played a big role in the 2024 election -- from the the political conventions to candidates on podcasts. What does this tell us about the cultural moment we're in?

The nonprofit Children's Health Defense that Kennedy led has filed nearly 30 federal and state lawsuits since 2020, many ...

At issue is a Tennessee law that bans access to hormones, puberty blockers, and other treatments for trans kids in the state.

A grandmother looking for her lost cat apparently fell into a sinkhole that had recently opened above an abandoned western ...

Israel's military has imposed a curfew and created a no-go zone where villagers are prohibited from going home to villages across southern Lebanon. NPR speaks to residents inside.

On the first trip of his Presidency to Africa, President Biden went to the National Slavery museum to remember the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans taken from Angola to the U.S.

The gene-editing technique known as CRISPR is promising to revolutionize medicine. Some researchers are trying to help make it available for people with very rare genetic disorders.