The three-time Olympic champion will need to shave more than 7 seconds off her personal best, a record she set two years ago.

President Trump's financial disclosure shows more than $630 million in income from 2024 including tens of millions from ...

We take a hike in the Maine woods with high school students who've been given the option to hike instead of sit in detention.

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after ...

Jim Obergefell, plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage in all 50 states, reflects on the ...

America's Interstate Highway System cut through the hearts of many downtowns when it was built in the 1950s and 1960s, leaving a legacy of inequality and urban impoverishment.

Experts and government entities are at odds with each other about the success of the United States’ strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites.

There’s renewed interest in using nuclear energy to supply electricity after years of stagnation. And now, Michigan wants to restart a plant that was shut down, something rarely, if ever, done before.

How did a little known assemblyman become the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City? NPR's A Martinez talks to Bob Hardt, political director of the NY1 news channel.

The Trump administration is considering a first-of-its kind mining project at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. But deep-sea mining has raised major environmental questions.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with John Bolton, a national security advisor in President Trump's first term, about U.S. strikes on Iran and differing assessments of their success.