NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Natalize Baszile about her new novel Friends and Family. Can an interracial friendship stand up to the pressure of U.S. life in 2026?

The city will pay The Haskell Company roughly $260 million to upgrade Mitchell Water Treatment Plant’s system for treating ...

Historically, the CDC relied on state health departments' determination of measles deaths. Now, it's working with the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists to create a clear definition.

It's likely you've already chewed and swallowed some tasty morsel today. But when did that ability emerge? New evidence ...

A week after the failed execution, Pike is awake but is said to be angry and confused. Her lawyers said Wednesday's hearing was about "transparency." ...

The Pentagon says Nidal Hasan will be executed by firing squad in December at Fort Hood, where he killed 13 people in 2009.

As checks from President Trump for health costs hit millions of mailboxes, a poll shows Americans don't trust Republicans on healthcare. Experts doubt it will move the needle and say it is likely ...

The Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas has forced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to fight for political survival ahead of elections later this month.

President Trump is making his fourth trip to Texas in six weeks. The New York Times’ Texas politics correspondent Lauren ...

Headlee's great grandmother, Carrie Still Shepperson, was one of a group of extraordinary Black women who educated and organized former enslaved people and their families following the Civil War.

State lawmakers voted nearly unanimously Wednesday afternoon to pause North Carolina's gas tax in the midst of high prices ...

New research looks at the surprising similarities in the gut microbiomes of hunter-gathers in Tanzania and horticulturalists in Bolivia, and asks: What role do these bacteria play in human health?