NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Reports from Russian media say he fell from a 5th ...

Surviving on a diet of toothpaste and toilet paper, South Africa's notorious "zama-zama" illegal miners continue a weeks-long ...

Texas builders warn mass deportations of undocumented migrants could devastate the construction industry, threatening housing ...

The strikes were the fourth on Beirut in less than a week. The escalation comes after a U.S. envoy traveled to the region ...

In recent years, "atmospheric river" has become used much more frequently in scientific papers and in media coverage.

NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked the city of Dnipro with an experimental, hypersonic ...

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming ...

The Trump administration nominee for secretary of defense calls women in combat roles a mistake. Critics fear it's yet another signal that policies that engage with a changing America could be on the ...

While swing states were going for Donald Trump, Wyoming was an already red state that saw its legislature move even further to the right — with the Freedom Caucus taking charge.

Scott Simon is one of America's most admired writers and broadcasters. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. He has reported from ...

Healthy corals are colorful and full of life. And under normal conditions, corals and algae depend on one another. The corals ...

The storm arrived in the Pacific Northwest earlier this week, killing two people and knocking out power to hundreds of ...