President Trump's first weeks in office included executive orders that aim to stop or roll back former President Biden's ambitious climate agenda and redirect the country's attention to fossil fuels.

In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.

While prices and the economy were top issues during the campaign, President Trump is making clear that other issues — most notably immigration — are his main focus at the start of his second term.

Marco Rubio heads to Latin America on his first trip as secretary of state, including Panama, where President Trump wants control of the canal.

Transportation officials have restricted helicopter flights around Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after Wednesday's mid-air collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet ...

But Marianne Faithfull was famously caught up in a drug bust at Richards' place in 1967, clad only in a fur rug. She lost a baby, split from Jagger, struggled with heroin abuse, depression and eating ...

It turns out, a maggot's preference for rotting fruit has as much to do with texture as taste. Researchers are looking into figuring out why and what neurons are responsible.

Let's celebrate Groundhog Day, in all its bizarre, quirky strangeness. Let it remind us that we have not subdued nature, but ...

Köhler, a onetime head of the International Monetary Fund who became a popular German president before resigning abruptly in a flap over comments about the country's military, has died at 81.

An NPR listener wonders whether her husband's relationship with a female colleague is too close for comfort. He says she's ...

Trump has shown an affinity with many of the little guys — what he called in 2017 "the forgotten men and women." But he also has shown an affinity with some of the fattest cats of all.

Siegel is the first American to be released as part of this deal. A total of 18 hostages have been released since the ...