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Authorities in Bangladesh have begun relocating thousands of Rohingya refugees to an isolated island despite calls by human rights groups fo...

With COVID-19 case numbers rising nationwide, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced new regional stay-at-home orders. Tonight is the deadli...

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. James Porter, president of Deaconess Health System, about how states and hospitals are preparing for the ro...

Officers discovered 25 men and one woman inside a boarded-up house in the Houston suburbs. Many said they were being held against their will...

Amid criticism of the government's recent handling of the pandemic, the country is seeing more cases than at any time in the past nine mont...

Asian American voter turnout was up 91% on Election Day 2020 compared to 2016. Aisha Yaqoob Mahmood with Asian Americans Advancing Justice's...

Coronavirus cases continue to rise, but the U.S. inches closer to a vaccine. Biden taps Anthony Fauci and Brian Deese for key advisor roles....

President Trump signed a big public lands conservation bill this summer. But so far the White House's implementation of the new law has been...

A Chinese probe has blasted off from the surface of the moon, carrying the first moon rock samples collected in over 40 years.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Gustavo Faleiros about the unprecedented destruction of the Amazon forest and what it might mean for both Br...

Thousands of Ethiopian refugees have poured into Sudan to escape the month-long fighting in Ethiopia. Eyder Peralta is at the makeshift camp...

The United Kingdom and Russia both made big announcements on the coronavirus vaccine front this week.

The remote island of Bhashan Char was first proposed as an option to move the Rohingya in 2015. The island is potentially unsafe for inhabit...

Winter resorts across the country have spent months developing their plans for the new ski season. They require masks and distancing, and ma...

His comments came even as the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a federal district court to reexamine its previous support for restrict...

The U.S. Department of Justice alleged Facebook reserved more than 2,600 jobs over almost two years specifically for temporary visa holders...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams about the worsening coronavirus pandemic and his call to action on mate...

The teenager is accused of killing two people and injuring another during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black ma...

Gov. Gavin Newsom said the restrictions will likely go into effect "in the next day or two" in places with less than 15% I.C.U. availability...

Surging COVID-19 cases in Rhode Island mean the state might not have enough medical workers to treat all the people hospitalized.(Image cred...

Thousands of Yazidis who were in displacement camps in northern Iraq's Kurdistan Region have returned to Sinjar. "It's a beautiful feeling t...

President Trump is threatening to veto a bipartisan defense policy bill unless Congress adds language to hold social media sites legally lia...

Interpol has put out a warning of the threat of fake coronavirus vaccines and theft of genuine ones, saying criminal organizations plan to i...

For the third time in three weeks, a metal monolith has appeared without explanation, this time in Central California. Yet answers are just...

The group had been expected to delay production increases for several months, given the ongoing impact of the coronavirus pandemic. But afte...