The debate over how much teachers and parents should be responsible for paying for school supplies is being enflamed this ...

Much of the Midwest was once a great swath of prairie and oak savanna before it was transformed by farms, patchy forests and ...

Ketamine is a hallucinogenic drug. But in recent years, it’s become a legit therapeutic option for hard-to-treat depression.

In the multi-part documentary “My Undesirable Friends,” filmmaker Julia Loktev follows a group of independent journalists in Moscow who've been labeled "foreign agents" by the Putin regime.

We get the latest on President Trump's much-watched summit with Russian President Putin in Alaska from NPR's Tamara Keith.

Washington D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Friday, challenging President Trump's unprecedented federal takeover of the city's police force, calling it "brazenly unlawful." ...

The Trump administration is considering an attempt to take a stake in chipmaker Intel. The move comes after President Trump called for the removal of CEO Lip-Bu Tan over his earlier ties to China.

The Inca society kept records by encoding information into a system of knotted strings. A new analysis of hair woven into these strings suggests that this record-keeping wasn't just an activity by ...

Robert Bergstrom, CEO of OceanWell, says his company's desalination pods that had been tested at a freshwater reservoir near Los Angeles are a step closer to going into the ocean.

Alaska has a long relationship with Russia — both positive and negative. In advance of Trump and Putin's meeting in Anchorage, we get reactions from Alaskans about the summit in their state. Alaska ...

For foreigners, the risks of visiting China have been growing, including exit bans, arbitrary arrests, and a host of vague laws about security.