The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?

Friday morning, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV led his first public mass as head of the Catholic Church: ...

Faulty DNA tests being used in criminal cases in Texas could impact about 700 cases. Under some circumstances, these tests were incorrectly coming back as insufficient DNA to test.

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the U.S., about the violent conflict between India and Pakistan.

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of actions the president has taken to shape American cultural institutions.

A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration's sweeping overhaul of the federal government.

Janinna Sesa worked alongside Pope Leo XIV in Chiclayo, Peru from 2015 until 2023. She spoke with NPR about his leadership in times of crisis.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission works to protect Americans from dangerous products and issuing recalls and warnings.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated the numbers of measles cases in the country on Friday. Here's ...

Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts University doctoral student, was ordered released by a federal judge in Vermont in the latest setback ...