From sparking the imagination to helping with mental health, listen to poems read by NPR readers and see how poetry has affected their lives.

Many regional reservoirs that store water for irrigation are doing better than they were last year. Two good winters have ...

With continuing concerns about political violence, a bill would allow candidates and elected officials to use campaign ...

When marijuana becomes a Schedule III instead of a Schedule I substance under federal rules, researchers will face fewer ...

It is "the first known case of active wound treatment in a wild animal with a medical plant," biologist Isabelle Laumer told ...

Katie Ledecky is used to getting medals, having earned 10 at the Olympics. But on Friday she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest award a civilian can get from the U.S. government.

Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors questioned her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

Hope Hicks was a communications director for the Trump White House and prosecutors may question her on her knowledge of the deals made during his first presidential run.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously ordered the case dismissed in 2020, saying that the job of determining the nation’s climate policies should fall to politicians, not judges.

Michael Sanchez was testing out his new camera when he happened upon a feathered subject. The blue rock-thrush he photographed on the coast of northern Oregon last week has excited the birding world.

Siblings — especially twins — sometimes share the strangest traits, like throwing a ball with their head or picking up keys and crayons with their toes. Researchers want to know what's up with that.