Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa vanished 50 years ago. What happened remains a mystery as Hoffa's legend has grown. There have been ...

U.S. aid cuts have stoked the existing malnutrition crisis in northern Nigeria as treatment centers are forced to shut with the loss of U.S. support.

North Carolina has a tradition of divided government, and the competition between the two parties over things like DEI, gun laws, and transgender care heated up this week.

NPR goes on a coast-to-coast hunt for treasure hiding in plain sight. Learn about sea glass and how to find it.

An NPR reporter goes searching for the perfect swimming hole in New York's Adirondack Mountains.

A fragile ceasefire between Druze fighters and armed Bedouin clans in Syria has brought an uneasy pause in the violence there but a strain on Syria's interim government, and tested the loyalties of ...

The National Transportation Safety Board opened a three-day investigative hearing Wednesday on the January midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, which killed 67 people.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Kit Miyamoto, an engineer specializing in disaster recovery, about U.S. readiness following the major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Russia.

The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday, but a rate cut is possible in September. President ...

Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds says one of her key priorities is to make child care more accessible for families.

Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds says one of her key priorities is to make child care more accessible for families.