The White House commended Pope Francis for his commitment to serving the poor, as well as advocating for peace and protecting ...

A U.S. Department of Agriculture report has found that "inadequate sanitation practices" at a Boar's Head facility in Virginia contributed to a listeria outbreak that left 10 people dead and dozens ...

Firefighters made progress overnight on almost all of the active fires, including the massive Palisades and Eaton blazes, officials said.

The significant winter storm had passed in the South by Saturday morning, but travel issues and power outages were still ongoing.

The fires around Los Angeles arrived just as Hollywood's awards season kicked off. It's an ominous sign at a time when film ...

More than 100,000 Los Angeles County residents remain under evacuation orders, and the threat of fire there is not over. New evacuations were ordered last night and strong Santa Ana winds are expected ...

The government provides HIV medicines free of charge. Yet in one indigenous territory, cases and deaths are increasing at an ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's close friends included the likes of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and the Allman brothers.

A series of unexpected events after the narrow election has set up a power struggle in the Minnesota Legislature. Days before ...

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were accused of making bomb threats. An NPR investigation now has them ...

NPR's Scott Simon recalls a conversation he once had with the late President Jimmy Carter about the possibility of UFOs.

"It's wild. There's people out here that have just created a chain," said one woman who showed up to volunteer at a YMCA in ...