Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

What a new bridge over Baltimore's Patapsco River will look like is still very much a matter of speculation. But one design stands out.

A host of Black Democratic lawmakers reintroduced legislation Wednesday that would ban discrimination against a person's hairstyle or hair texture. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J., led a group of ...

Dozens of cities and counties around the U.S. have been trying to tackle poverty by giving people no-strings cash aid, an idea that gained traction after the success of stimulus checks and other ...

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in ...

Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at a key Boeing supplier who raised concerns about improperly drilled holes in the ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with a group of Jewish students at Columbia University who say they've experienced antisemitic ...

LUBBOCK — A decayed utility pole that broke, causing power wires to fall on dry grass in the Texas Panhandle, sparked the ...

Federal regulators, medical experts and safe-sleep advocates have warned of the potential danger of weighted infant sleepwear ...

The New York State Court of Appeals overturned Weinstein's 2020 conviction last week, ruling that his trial was unfair.

After spiking in 2021, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. improved significantly the following year, according to a new ...