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Thousands of homes lost power and about 150 people had to be evacuated after a transformer within an electrical substation caught fire in we...

Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer Kirsty Coventry has been elected to head the International Olympic Committee. The two-time gold medalist is marki...

Director Carl Erik Rinsch sold Netflix a sci-fi series. Instead of finishing it, prosecutors allege he spent some of the streamer's money on...

The artwork, titled, America, was stolen from the palace where Winston Churchill was born.(Image credit: WILLIAM EDWARDS/AFP via Getty Image...

Farmers already worry about things like crop prices, the cost of farm supplies and extreme weather.Now, President Trump's signature tariffs...

Three Middle East conflicts have reignited, threatening the wider region. Israel is bombing Gaza, the U.S. launched strikes against the Hout...

For more than a year, Houthi rebels have been attacking ships, choking off transit in one of the world's most critical waterways. The Pentag...

Attorney General Pamela Bondi says the accused are part of a "wave of domestic terrorism." Experts say this is a common stance of the federa...

Recently a few hundred people gathered at a Damascus hotel to discuss how to jump-start Syria's tech industry. That sector was basically non...

Judge James Boasberg had earlier asked the Trump administration to provide more details about weekend flights that deported hundreds of alle...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean Murphy resigned from the Department of Justice, telling NPR, 'It just was not a Department of Justice th...

The University of Pennsylvania found itself at the center of the trans athlete debate when one of its trans students won a series of events...

Ben & Jerry's alleges its parent company, Unilever, ousted its CEO in retaliation for social media posts supporting progressive causes. The...

Canadian investigators released a preliminary report into last month's Delta Air Lines regional jet rollover landing crash in Toronto. The p...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is studying dark energy and the accelerated expansion of the universe.(Image credit: NASA/ES...

Even as the war in Gaza continues, Israel's prime minister says a "larger and more intense front could be opened" in the West Bank, where mo...

A Pentagon official not authorized to speak publicly said its review to scrub websites of DEI content was too hasty and used search terms li...

The Israeli military expanded its ground offensive in Gaza, and killed at least 80 Palestinians in a new wave of strikes Thursday. Hamas fir...

NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loo...

The Smokehouse Creek fire tore through the Texas Panhandle early last year, burning over a million acres in just weeks. In the small town of...

Some fear a setback for women and people of color after President Trump revoked a 1965 executive order that required federal contractors to...

Kenneth Stern, who drafted a widely used definition of antisemitism, says the Trump administration is using antisemitism claims to stifle sp...

Interior Department employees say they have been scrambling to keep the lights on and do their jobs as budget cuts driven by the Department...

Texas is quickly becoming the epicenter of the Trump administration's deportation promises. A detention center in Dilley, Texas, shuttered d...

What do warming relations between Russia and the U.S. mean for Iran? NPR asks Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for...