Forget the saber-toothed tiger steaks: a new study published this week reveals that ancient humans also ate their veggies.

Paul Auster was many things: novelist, screenwriter, poet, and NPR contributor. He died this week from cancer at the age of ...

On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State students, killing four and wounding nine. A former student who ...

What's a typical vacation activity for doctors? Work. A new study finds that most physicians do work on a typical day off. In ...

Photojournalists at NPR member stations documented protests at college and university campuses nationwide this week.

Jerry Seinfeld has the become the latest in a string of public figures to blame "political correctness" for the death of ...

Weliton Menário Costa's award-winning music video showcases his research on kangaroo personality and behavior — and offers a ...

It's a popular rest stop for sea lions, but the docks at the tourist hot spot these days are unusually packed out with the ...

Tom Selleck became a TV star in the 1980s as the Hawaii-based detective of "Magnum, P.I." He talks with NPR's Scott Simon about what it took to get there and his new memoir, "You Never Know." ...

The children of sex workers rarely see doctors and are often living in brothels. Their deaths frequently go unnoticed and undocumented.

Saturday the better day to get outside this weekend, sunny, warm and marginally windy. A spring storm then brings a very windy and cooler Sunday (The NWS has issued High Wind Watches across the region ...

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs' signing of the repeal of a Civil War-era ban on nearly all abortions was a stirring occasion for ...