Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of ...

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

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.

NEW YORK — Hope Hicks, a Trump-era White House adviser and communications director, testified in former President Donald Trump's criminal trial on Friday. Hicks' name had been brought up by several ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Biden had an unexpected update to his schedule Thursday to address the pro-Palestinian protests roiling campuses across the country.

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

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