A recent executive order paves the way for retirement accounts to include a lot more than stock and bond funds.

Erin strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean on Saturday and continues to intensify, the National ...

The world got a glimpse of Marwan Barghouti for the first time in years in a video of a far-right Israeli minister berating ...

When President Trump announced his crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., the local U.S. Attorney said she wanted to focus ...

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a ...

Russia hailed the summit as "very positive," while U.S. and European leaders urged Trump to push harder for a ceasefire.

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may ...

Vauhini Vara examines how tech is helping and exploiting us in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Michael Grynbaum explores the heyday, and decline, of magazines like Vogue and Vanity Fair.

Immigration arrests falter in July after a big push for mass deportations in June. Activists in sanctuary jurisdictions hope their resistance plays a role.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Minnesota Supreme Court Justices Anne McKeig and Sarah Hennesy, about their new amateur all-judge band, The Reasonable Doubts.

Giant dams built to conserve the Colorado River have nearly wiped out nearby native cottonwood trees, causing big ecosystem disruption. Tiny dams built to mimic those built by beavers could bring them ...

We check out Scallopalooza -- a night street festival AND a scallop-shucking contest -- in New Bedford, Mass.