It's easy to walk south from the U.S. into Mexico. What's hard is going the other way. A team of NPR journalists experienced ...

In the Spring of 1947, Navy sailor Lincoln Grahlfs went to an Oakland, Calif. hospital suffering from a 103-degree fever, a ...

VARANASI, India — Hindu priests stand on the banks of the Ganges, performing an evening prayer to the river. They wave fire ...

The Israeli military on Monday ordered tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Rafah to evacuate, a move indicating ...

Some doctors are promoting propellant-free inhalers over puff inhalers that emit greenhouse gases. Climate change can ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

Griner's new memoir recounts being humiliated by guards, of the pain from squeezing her 6-foot-9 frame into cramped beds and ...

A father and daughter discovered fossil remnants of a giant ichthyosaur that scientists say may have been the largest-known ...

A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a ...

This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series from the Hidden Brain team. It features stories of people whose kindness left a lasting impression on someone else. In 1997, Apryle Oswald was on a road ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that his government voted unanimously to shut down the local offices ...

The English actor played Captain Edward John Smith in the 1997 film Titanic as well as King Théoden of Rohan in The Lord of ...