A powerful 8.8-magnitude earthquake in Russia's Far East is sending tsunami waves to Hawaii, Alaska, California and Oregon.

World Photography Day is celebrated on Aug. 19 to celebrate the storytelling behind photos. This year, NPR wants to hear the ...

This week on the Billboard albums chart, Tyler, The Creator's Don't Tap the Glass charts at No. 1 and Ozzy Osbourne's The ...

Republicans in the Texas House have released a proposed new redistricting map that seeks to fulfill President Trump's desire ...

The U.S. economy grew this spring after a slowdown earlier this year. A report from the Commerce Department shows the ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the ...

Britain announced it would conditionally recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations General Assembly this September.

Summer camps are underway, but the deadly Texas floods raise questions about how safe such camps are when it comes to climate-related disasters like flooding. Julia Simon from NPR’s climate desk ...

A growing number of American Jews whose parents and grandparents fled Germany during World War II are now getting German ...

The Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer explains how SpaceX and the Trump administration are changing the face of NASA, and why Musk's dream of Mars may come at the cost of the agency's mission.

Clinton is the leader of two important funk bands, Parliament and Funkadelic. In 1975, Parliament released Mothership Connection, a loose concept album about funk musicians as galactic invaders.

Fueled by MAHA, state lawmakers are moving to remove dyes and other additives from food. A wide range of state laws could ...