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California has now joined Texas in becoming a state with more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, ac...

The strain found in the minks is the same one found in humans, an agriculture official said, and a breeder at one farm also tested positive....

The reprieve in the latest sigh of relief for the massively popular video app, but uncertainty hangs over its future. (Image credit: AP)

Amid a new wave of coronavirus restrictions, France, the U.K., Germany and Italy are keeping schools open. The U.S. has taken a different ap...

A German court has ruled that techno is music DJs are musicians, giving clubs the same tax breaks as concert halls.

A spokesman for China's foreign ministry offered congratulations at his regular daily briefing. China had been one of the last major nations...

A nurse in Jordan struggles to care for her own children and parents and stay free of COVID-19 while she treats patients infected with the v...

A researcher in Minneapolis is exploring the impact police violence could be having on pregnant Black women and their babies.

Joe Biden won the presidential election, but it was a lot closer than the polls suggested. And there's evidence that political polling in 20...

Even as many Senate Republicans refuse to recognize President-elect Joe Biden's win, they signaled support to assistance to his transition t...

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with traveling intensive care unit nurse Lydia Mobley about her experience of working with coronavirus patients i...

U.S. cities are facing an increase in the number of homeless residents. The housing crisis in Philadelphia led to an unusual agreement to al...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Vineet Arora, a hospitalist at the University of Chicago, about warning Illinois officials that hospitals will...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Christi Grimm of the Department of Health and Human Services about dealing with the pandemic and navigati...

The political divide between rural and urban America has become more obvious this year. But people living in cities and those in rural towns...

President-elect Joe Biden says he'll renew the transatlantic relationship. But in the last four years, European attitudes toward the U.S. ha...

In the two decades since the Taliban lost power, Afghan women have made enormous progress. Today, they play soccer in a Kabul stadium, but t...

New Delhi has some of the dirtiest air in the world, and smog is complicating COVID-19 cases. The upcoming sparkler-filled holiday of Diwali...

Obama's ascent thrilled millions, but also stirred a counter-movement that is still on the march. His new memoir A Promised Land covers his...

Biden sought to reassure the leaders of Japan, South Korea and Australia that he will work to renew and strengthen ties.(Image credit: Ahn Y...

COVID-19 cases in North Dakota are 60% higher than they were four weeks ago. NPR's David Greene talks to Dr. Doug Griffin, chief medical off...

Facing a pandemic lockdown, huge political upheavals and ongoing uncertainty about the future, musicians including Oumou Sangare and Songhoy...

Disillusionment with British Prime Minister Johnson's handling of the pandemic and Brexit has driven a majority of Scottish people to consis...

Those recovering from COVID-19 were more likely than other groups of patients to be diagnosed with a mental disorder within three months. Th...

Pfizer's CEO sold $5.6 million worth of stock on Monday. The company says the stock sale was made as part of a preset plan. But NPR found ir...