They all showed off their talents at this year's Smithsonian Folklife Festival. The theme: How youth keep cultural traditions ...

At least 31 Palestinians were fatally shot on their way to an aid distribution site in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, while ...

Recent college graduates are facing one of the most challenging job markets in years — with the exception of the pandemic ...

A Martian meteorite said to be the largest piece of Mars on Earth, estimated at $2 - 4 million, is displayed at Sotheby's, in ...

Much of the attention on the world's plunging birth rate is on East Asian countries like Japan and South Korea. But Latin American countries, like Chile, are also seeing a decline in fertility.

Taiwan is holding its latest round of annual military exercises, the Han Kuang. The live-fire drills include new weapons systems provided by the United States.

Iga Świątek of Poland holds the trophy after winning the women's singles final match against Amanda Anisimova of the U.S. at ...

NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the 27 young people who perished at Camp Mystic in the catastrophic flooding of the ...

Many people in the United States receive little or no information about flood risk when they move into a new home or ...

Business groups lobbied heavily to overturn the measure passed by 58% of voters, arguing it would cost jobs. The bill also ...

David Gergen worked in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as a ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Mark Kurlansky about his new novel, "Cheesecake." It's a story of New York's restaurant and real estate scenes in the 1980s and, of course, that delectable dessert.