Hurricane Erin exploded in strength to a Category 5 storm in the Caribbean on Saturday, rapidly powering up from a tropical ...

The Old Fiddler's Convention in Galax, Va., features mostly amateur musicians playing Bluegrass and Old Time music. At age 89 ...

A new study finds that chimpanzee babies learn vocal and visual communication patterns from their mothers. The findings may ...

Ted came to NPR in its scrappy, early years, produced All Things Considered, then covered the White House and State ...

Electricity prices are rising more than twice as fast as overall inflation. That's especially costly during the dog days of ...

Theresa Youngblut, of Seattle, Washington, was formally charged for the murder of Border Patrol agent David Maland on ...

The suit claims the popular service may be recording and processing millions of users' private conversations without consent.

Scientists have recorded a human embryo implanting in a womb in real time. The implications of how it happens could lead to ...

A TV version of The Rainmaker is out this week, which gave critic Linda Holmes as good a reason as any to rank the on-screen ...

While atomic bomb survivors warn the catastrophic risks, leaders of nuclear-armed states and self-proclaimed 'realists' argue that the deterrence of nuclear weapons is what keeps them from being ...

The world got a glimpse of Marwan Barghouti for the first time in years in a video of a far-right Israeli minister berating him.