Nora Durkin called 311 to report abuse she said she had experienced as a child. She wasn't expecting to be taken seriously.

President Biden told reporters he was confident the election “will be free and fair,” before saying, “I don’t know whether it ...

It's been a week of clean up and recovery for people hardest hit by Hurricane Helene as the death toll is still rising. In East Tennessee, survivors-turned-volunteers help in the clean up.

Lisa Hagen is a reporter at NPR, covering conspiracism and the mainstreaming of extreme or unconventional beliefs. She's interested in how people form and maintain deeply held worldviews, and decide ...

A few weeks ago, a video game designer and a musician hid treasure somewhere in the forests of the Northeastern U.S. It’s called Project Skydrop. NPR joined the hunt.

Mosques and synagogues in the U.S. are paying special attention to ways they can bolster security for their members heading into Oct. 7.

Joker: Folie A Deux is a musical follow-up to Joaquin Phoenix's turn as DC Comics villain Joker, this time with Lady Gaga; and Saturday Night dramatizes the very first show of what would become SNL.

The U.N. has adopted a lengthy "pact" of items for the world to address for a better tomorrow. We asked global thinkers if ...

The justices, in a break from the way they have handled most such cases in the recent past, told the challengers to first ...

Our lexicographers monitor a huge range of sources to select which words and definitions to add,” Merriam-Webster's Peter ...