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Some 524 people, including the ship’s captain, perished when the HMS Hawke went down in the North Sea off the eastern coast of Scotland in 1...

Workers at a landfill in California have started rescuing items, cleaning them up, and reselling them at a new shop on the premises. The pro...

The world needs lithium to transition to a lower carbon future. The mineral is used in batteries, such as those found in electric vehicles....

Who will win today's cage match?Welcome to The Smackdown! For the next several weeks Brittany is hosting debates in cities and regions acros...

Local authorities said the crew and passengers hailed from a variety of countries: the United States, Britain, Antigua, France, Germany, Ire...

In a night "For the People," Democrats focused on the legacy of the Biden presidency as President Biden passed the torch to Vice President H...

The former president will be traveling the country, focused on the issues that his campaign believe matter most to voters: the economy, crim...

Ukraine is holding ground it seized inside Russia. Yet Ukraine is losing villages inside its own territory. And in the Black Sea, the Russia...

Some 12 million people are displaced in Sudan as the military government battles a powerful paramilitary group. There is acute hunger and ri...

Ukraine's incursion into Russia opens a third front that Kyiv is counting on to build leverage and morale. NPR's A Martinez talks with the F...

Julia Weber was walking home from work one day in San Francisco when an earthquake struck. She rode it out in the arms of a stranger.(Image...

Nearly 35 years after the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed, many curb ramps and sidewalks are still not suitable for wheelchairs....

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is trying to get a cease-fire agreement for Gaza “across the finish line.” It has been on the table for mo...

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist said a 12-day excavation yielded “several mastodon bones,” primarily from the sku...

The 16-foot-tall sculpture of the civil rights icon will be official unveiled on Saturday.(Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

NPR met with a group of five young people who have experiences with the U.S. immigration system to talk about how their identity and family...

Venezuelans took to the streets of Tokyo, Sydney, Mexico City and other cities to defend the opposition's claim to victory over President Ni...

The Communications Workers of America, the union representing the striking employees, has accused AT&T of not bargaining "in good faith" dur...

Her family said Victoria Lee, 25, from Fort Lee, N.J., was experiencing a mental health crisis when her brother called 911 for medical help....

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with New Yorker editor David Remnick about his recent profile of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

For the first time since 2011, festival organizers are offering rush tickets without requiring preregistration. (Image credit: Julie Jammot)

The voluntary recall of frozen breaded chicken breast tenders and nuggets comes following multiple consumer complaints about metal wire foun...

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos is expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in his federal fraud case, according to a person familiar with...

OpenAI said it banned several ChatGPT accounts that generated fake online articles and comments, adding that the content gained little to no...

In the third installment of our series on moving house, we visit June Scott, a 99-year-old woman who moved into an assisted living facility...