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

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

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

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

More than 100,000 Los Angeles County residents remain under evacuation orders, and the threat of fire there is not over. New ...

Singer and former beauty queen Anita Bryant has died at the age of 84. She was well-known for her advocacy against LGBTQ rights in the 1970s.

"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 ...

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

Former diplomat Barry Rosen was a hostage during the Iran crisis. In an interview with All Things Considered, he reflects on ...

President-elect Trump's picks for his national security team will soon start confirmation hearings, after his remarks about buying Greenland, taking over the Panama Canal and making Canada a state.

Reporters covering a Chinese dissident in Europe were targeted with bomb threats. An NPR investigation later found evidence the dissident was linked to con which included the specter of bomb threats.

The threat of a strike at East and Gulf Coast ports ended when the dockworkers union and the shipping companies reached a tentative contract deal that appears to allow for some use of automation.