WBUR's Martha Bebinger lost her nephew, Austen Smith, to a drug overdose last year. In this essay, she describes the pain and ...

White House envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in a last-ditch effort to convince him to make ...

Jeff Buckley’s legacy and music live on, long past his death in 1997 at just 30 years old. In the 1990s, he was known for his ...

In the book, Traci Brimhall, the poet laureate of Kansas, details her effort to build connections through food and the arts.

U.N. officials say a quarter of the population in Gaza is experiencing “famine-like conditions.” Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.

Contraception is routine for many Americans – and people across political parties agree that it should be legal and accessible. But the Trump administration is walking back access for some people.

The Department of Transportation is raising concerns about airlines using artificial intelligence to set ticket prices based on customers’ personal information. Airline ticket prices already fluctuate ...

Summer for thousands of people in Ann Arbor means scavenging for hidden codes around the city and reading books to collect points. It's been a triumph for the public library that runs it.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with J.B. Pritzker, the governor of Illinois, about hosting a group of Texas state lawmakers as they protest a partisan redistricting effort in their state.

We speak with James Larkin, the head of a project in South Africa that's experimenting with using radiation to prevent rhino poaching. They sedate the animals and inject radiation into their horns.

Most of us have heard you need 10,000 steps a day to stave off health problems, but new research is finding that number is not necessary -- though more is always better.

Last month, Microsoft announced a Chinese state-sponsored hack on government agency data, as well as hundreds of companies.