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Congress is out on recess as a partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security is underway. And, why some superstar ...

Netflix's new docuseries unpacks how the hit modeling show made for "good TV" for its creators and devastating consequences for its participants.

U.S. Team Pursuit speed skaters will top speeds of 30 mph by pushing themselves around the track mere inches from each other.

Authorities investigating the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie are testing DNA they hope will point them toward a suspect. The ...

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the first drilling at Mount Rushmore, the iconic American landmark in South Dakota.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Vali Nasr, a professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins University, about nuclear ...

North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while ...

Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer ...

Early last year, a hundred researchers, clinicians and other experts on HIV discussed the development of an innovative ...

Tom Homan says this federal force will stay "for a short period of time" to protect immigration agents who remain as the ...

More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense ...