Fire managers and emergency responders sometimes speak in jargon that may be tricky to decipher in fast-moving emergencies.

Eckart Preu reunite after a hiatus of eight years to present a "house concert" recital at the Hamilton Studio Listening Room ...

In an internal memo obtained by NPR, U.S. officials warn that Israel's "drastically increased" evacuation orders in Gaza have ...

Women have been complaining that doctors don't warn them how much an IUD insertion can hurt — or offer pain relief. Now the ...

Nest-building isn’t just instinct. Birds can learn from others, letting groups within one species develop their own ...

Retired military chaplain David Peters, who has conducted services at Arlington National Cemetery, tells NPR's Michel Martin ...

It's time for college football, and this year it's going to be quite different. Colleges have switched conferences and the playoffs are expanding from four teams to 12.

Fall is a huge season for books, leading up to the holidays. We take a look at some of the most anticipated fiction titles coming out in the next few months.

The U.S.' National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan wrapped up a trip to Beijing by meeting with China's leader, Xi Jinping.

Goalball is a paralympic sport created for blind and vision-impaired athletes. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Andy Jenks, a former member of the U.S. goalball team and a silver Paralympic medalist.

Hopper, who died in 2010, became famous for the 1969 hippie biker road trip movie, Easy Rider. "There was a lot of smoking grass on that picture. ... I didn’t do it. But I drank," he said in 1990.

The writer Richard Reeves has devoted himself to an issue that's tricky to talk about, the troubles of boys and men. Statistically, boys do worse in school and are now less likely than girls to attend ...