The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark said it would take certain surplus pets to be "gently euthanized" and fed to its captive predators ...

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

The Trump administration cancelled about $500 million for research into mRNA vaccines. The move slows progress in using the ...

President Trump and the Kremlin both had positive takes after White House envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir ...

The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration is proposing rule changes that would limit the authority of district safety ...

When female gorillas leave one social group and join another, they tend to seek out groups with other females that they've ...

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international correspondents share snapshots of moments from their ...

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

There's a fresh push to edit the genes of human embryos to prevent diseases and enhance characteristics that parents value.

A Louisville real estate developer is suing to declare the city-county merger of 2003 unconstitutional and void.

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.

More than 500 former officials who once led Israel's military and security agencies are asking President Trump to help stop the war in Gaza. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with one of them.