Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals. She has 10 Olympic medals — seven of which are gold — and she has 26 world ...

Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent official so far to declare that ...

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

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On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who ...

Cheslie Kryst, who lived in North and South Carolina and died by suicide in 2022, describes her struggle with depression in ...

For decades, nonprofits, health insurers and hospitals have been trying to solve the problem of the people who need the ...

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

The North Carolina roadside history marker commemorates the Cowee Tunnel disaster near Dillsboro, an 1882 construction ...

Earlier this year, on New Year's Day, Emma Trenchard was on holiday in Cape Town, South Africa. She was visiting her older ...

As UNC Charlotte prepares for commencement next week, a small group of students has set up tents near the center of campus as ...

President Joe Biden visited Wilmington today to announce a total of $250 million in funding to replace lead pipes around ...