The French government is pressing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to release the 86-year-old French widow of a ...

English speakers can face bad — even fatal — health outcomes. A hospital in rural Colorado is training its existing bilingual ...

The annual Whiting Award for Emerging Writers comes with $50,000 to support each winner's work. It's one of the largest ...

In The Take, an older woman and a younger woman agree to exchange 10 years of their lives through a blood transfusion. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with author Kelly Yang.

Insurance coverage of blockbuster obesity drugs has been spotty at best over the years, and it looks like things are getting worse, not better. Plans are dropping coverage or restricting it further.

Syrian Kurds ran their own region for 12 years after breaking away from Assad control. Now they are forced to give up autonomy. NPR visited the changing region.

President Trump's attacks on Pope Leo are unprecedented, religious experts told NPR. Here's how the situation differs from ...

The war in Iran has been dragging down President Trump's approval rating. A new focus group of swing voters finds broad displeasure with the president's handling of that war.

The Pentagon is sending more troops to the Middle East, and the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports continues, in an attempt to pressure Iran into making a deal to end the war.

The reduction in ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has had an outsize impact on global jet fuel supplies. Prices have doubled.

Rio de Janeiro in Brazil is home to the world's largest urban rain forest. Woven among the city's bustling neighborhoods are ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has a new exhibit tracing the animal's importance in American history.