Two sisters struggled to remember troubling childhood events until adulthood. A neuroscientist and author gave them the science and the language to turn their work into a dance performance and a book.
Taiwan was rocked Tuesday by a 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit off the coast. But the causalities and destruction are minimal compared to a devastating earthquake that the island nation in 1999.
An outbreak of mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — in the Democratic Republic of Congo has health experts concerned as the majority of deaths have been children.
The aftermath of Israel's raid on Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital and airstrike on foreign workers shows the risks of an even wider assault on Rafah, where most Palestinians are now sheltering.
When he takes over, in the fall of 2027, he will be the youngest music director in the orchestra's 133-year history.
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which makes more than 90% of world's most advanced chips, also halted production, but it plans to resume chipmaking overnight.
Three of those killed by an Israeli airstrike were British and the others were Australian, Palestinian, Polish and a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada.
CDC director Dr. Mandy Cohen tells NPR that while the risk of bird flu spreading to humans is low, the U.S. government is taking precautions to avoid spread of the virus.
Saturday's hit-and-run crash involved two speeding cars on a Dallas highway. One of the cars that triggered the collision is believed to be registered under the Kansas City Chiefs player's name.
Israel's military laid siege to Gaza's largest medical complex for two weeks because, they said, Hamas fighters had regrouped inside. Following the Israeli withdrawal from the hospital, Palestinians were able to get a glimpse of the results of the raid.
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Many schools — but not all — in the state and around the U.S. already ban phones in class. This requires it now in Indiana.
The relationship between the White House and Arab-Americans and Muslims is fraught because of President Biden's support for Israel's war in Gaza,
That's the finding of a new study in Bangladesh, which gave reading glasses to hundreds of people and then measured their earnings.
"A lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.
Iowa and LSU attracted the second-largest audience for any basketball game on ESPN — college or pro — since 2012, the network said. The college basketball feast continues this Friday.
While Beyoncé's new album suggests the country-music industry's problematic history of excluding Black artists, the collection as a whole is as much a celebration as it is a critique.
Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."
The Chicago-based songwriter and poet talks about her latest album, Water Made Us.
The Houston-bred artist's new album uses country as a trapdoor into a sweeping genre expression. By adopting the role of the outlaw, she's free to toss all rules into the trash heap.
Some people with expensive photo equipment are hoping to get the perfect shot during Monday's total solar eclipse. But for the rest of us, a cellphone camera is what we have to work with.
A handful of NPR music stations attended the annual music conference. This is what they'll bring back to their airwaves.
Taiwan has been hit by the strongest earthquake in a quarter of a century.
Hanif Abdurraqib's latest book is about hoops, sure, but it's also about so much more. It's another remarkable book from one of the country's smartest cultural critics.
Taiwan holds steady after a massive earthquake shakes the region. Biden and Trump won their Wisconsin primaries, but discontented voters made their voices heard.
The seaman had a storied career in the Navy. Over 27 years he served, he survived the surprise attack by Japan, was shot down over the Pacific and was uninjured in the Korean War.
