Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended against flu shots containing the ingredient thimerosal ...

The Dalai Lama turned 90 on Sunday surrounded by thousands of followers, who thronged the Himalayan town of Dharamshala.

How will the Trump administration's cuts to HIV research impact the progress that's been made towards ending the epidemic in the U.S.?

NPR's Pien Huang takes a journey to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival to hear from youth voices about how they're telling the story of America on the 4th of July.

First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show.

An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

Governor Greg Abbott says the state will work day and night to find people who may be stranded and unable to call for help.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg ...

As part of our StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative, we hear from three childhood friends from the small town of Webster, Florida, who all joined the military after graduating from high school.

Ukraine is facing a summer of escalating Russian airstrikes on its cities. The Ukrainian President has called on the U.S. to provide more air defense systems.