For Thanksgiving this year we're asking listeners to tell us about a song they're grateful for. Maybe it's one that lifts you ...

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President-elect Donald Trump is expected to come to the White House with a laundry list of policies he wants to change or ...

President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Rep. Elise Stefanik to serve in his Cabinet as the ambassador to the United ...

In the first interview about his new book The City and its Uncertain Walls, the celebrated author also talks with NPR about ...

President-elect Trump has offered the role of U.N. ambassador to House Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. "I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the ...

Global climate talks started today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producing country that borders Russia and Iran on ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

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After her car key broke, Betsy Cornwell was stranded and all alone. Then the unlikeliest of heroes came to her aid.

A study of cells from 84 cadaver brains suggests that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is ...

When you walk up to Natalie Donaldson’s little cottage-style house in Tulsa, Okla., you’re greeted by her bright smile, and ...