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For the second year in a row, an outburst of flooding from a naturally dammed lake at the Mendenhall Glacier has caused damage to homes in J...

As the sport makes its Olympic debut in Paris, a small crew of dancers from Ukraine look forward to representing their war-torn country and...

Some of the first protestors on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown was killed ten years ago have become national figures...

Starliner's test pilots, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, should have returned by mid-June. NASA is weighing its options for returning the t...

Jury selection is to begin Monday and the judge is expected to rule on a motion that would dismiss the case against a former county official...

The Sixth Amendment. Most of us take it for granted that if we're ever in court and we can't afford a lawyer, the court will provide one for...

Taffy Brodesser-Akner built her journalism career with her incisive celebrity profiles and then found additional success with two novels tha...

French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five people who died when the Titan submersible imploded during a voyage to the famed Titanic...

Barracuda Music said tickets will be refunded for the three canceled concerts, after officials announced arrests in an apparent plot to atta...

A popular book and TV series in Europe imagines the straight-laced former German chancellor Angela Merkel solving crimes in her retirement....

After more than a week of race riots across the UK, police are now deployed around the capital London amid fresh threats there from the far-...

The Nobel Peace laureate known for fighting poverty returns to Bangladesh Thursday to begin leading an interim government after former Prime...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Rebecca Allensworth, who teaches antitrust law at Vanderbilt Law School, about what comes next for Google...

Arizona's governor has intervened in a dispute between the Navajo Nation and a uranium mining company about ore trucks traveling across the...

For decades, the U.S. dominated the men's 400-meter race, one of the most difficult and prestigious events at any Olympic Games. But no Amer...

Phogat defeated the reigning Olympic champion on her way to a spot in the final. But Indian officials said that despite drastic measures, su...

More than two years after the Beijing Winter Games and a Russian doping controversy, the U.S. figure skating team finally received the gold...

The Constitutional Court ordered dissolution of the party, which won elections last year, saying it violated the constitution by proposing t...

In Palm Springs, Calif., the city is trying to make it right for the families that were literally burned out of their homes to make way for...

As a new academic year approaches, NPR wants to hear from elementary, middle and high school students. What's one tip you have for ensuring...

Ten years after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., NPR's Michel Martin talks to the city's new p...

A viral video captured the unlikely meeting of an NBA All-Star and the Olympic women's table tennis squad, who've since exchanged visits and...

A prior investigation rejected claims that civilians were killed and wounded in the raid targeting ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Pe...

After extreme fires last year that claimed 102 lives, Maui is trying to tackle the invasive grasses that pose a big wildfire risk. That coul...

Dozens more far-right rallies are planned across the United Kingdom on Wednesday, as police struggle to contain racist mob violence targetin...