Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to ...

Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an ...

Jake Pearson is a problem gambler, losing thousands of dollars a night betting on sports, and a DraftKings VIP, lavished with ...

Border agents dispersed a camp of protestors along the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday. The activists in Southern Arizona were protecting the last tree in a stand of towering cottonwood trees.

Brian Frange, who calls apples the "greatest fruit to grace the earth," has made it his calling to rank and re-rank at least 100 varieties of the fruit, based on 10 criteria, including density, skin, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with marine ecologist Jeff Seminoff about the first known natural sea turtle nesting on California's ...

British police said they had made a seventh arrest in a murky plot that may have targeted a U.K. airbase.

With four weeks to go until Election Day, the map for competitive House and Senate races is coming into focus as Democrats ...

This year's flu season is unusual. It started early and in the West, instead of the South. A new variant with a mutation that helps the virus evade immunity may be playing a role.

More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, ...

On the third anniversary of Israel's deadliest day, Israelis are grappling with reports that Netanyahu received repeated warnings from regional allies about such an attack by Hamas.

The last time the U.S. military held an execution was in 1961, by hanging. The last military execution by firing squad was in 1945, when an American soldier was shot for desertion in World War II.