In 2006, Ari Shapiro reported on how Hurricane Katrina made an already broken public defender system in New Orleans worse.

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

For about a decade, the director of the Knoedler Gallery ended up buying fake art from a Bonnie and Clyde-like duo. An FBI ...

Luke Farritor, a 23-year-old tech prodigy with no government experience, is at the center of sweeping federal cuts reshaping ...

Flight of the Concords alum Bret McKenzie kicks us off with “Freak Out City,” a jaunty ode to online conspiracism.

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

The Aalborg Zoo in Denmark said it would take certain surplus pets such as chickens, rabbits and guinea pigs to be "gently euthanized" and fed to its captive predators.

This man in Mozambique is one of many who've received a cash sum with no strings attached. The Trump administration has ...

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

Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the ...

The Trump administration froze UCLA’s roughly 800 grants, covering research into medicine, science, energy, and climate. How are scholars and the university responding?

The Trump administration froze UCLA’s roughly 800 grants, covering research into medicine, science, energy, and climate. How are scholars and the university responding?