Judith Jamison, dance star and former artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died Saturday. She was 81.

In the first interview about his new book The City and its Uncertain Walls, the celebrated author also talks with NPR about ...

President-elect Trump announced Sunday night that Tom Homan, his former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...

President-elect Trump has offered the role of U.N. ambassador to House Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y. "I am honored to nominate Chairwoman Elise Stefanik to serve in my Cabinet as U.S. Ambassador to the ...

Global climate talks started today in Baku, Azerbaijan, a major oil and gas producing country that borders Russia and Iran on ...

A study of cells from 84 brains finds that Alzheimer’s has two distinct phases, and that one type of neuron is especially ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday on whether a law that legislators adopted more than a decade before the Civil War bans abortion and can still be enforced.

Geri Maples is executive director of the SW Ohio chapter of Blue Star Families, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting military ...

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions ...

An NPR investigation finds thousands of veterans were pushed into high-cost mortgages by a program that was meant to help ...

More people are getting cancer in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, and surviving, thanks to rapid advancement in care. Many will have ...

The new film Emilia Pérez follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who was assigned male at birth but transitions ...