U.S. Team Pursuit speed skaters will top speeds of 30 mph by pushing themselves around the track mere inches from each other.

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the first drilling at Mount Rushmore, the iconic American landmark in South Dakota.

As the war in Ukraine nears its fourth anniversary, officials from Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. will meet in Geneva Tuesday ...

Sen. John Cornyn is seeking Texas Republicans' nomination for a fifth term, in a contest that has seen bitter and expensive ...

North Korea said Monday it completed a new housing district in Pyongyang for families of North Korean soldiers killed while ...

Early last year, a hundred researchers, clinicians and other experts on HIV discussed the development of an innovative ...

Grammy Award-winning bass player Victor Wooten joins us this week as we celebrate great music out of Nashville! We hear an ...

Translation tech has improved a lot. So why learn a language?A lot of people around the world speak English. For those who ...

Is America still a democracy? Scholars tell NPR that after the last year under President Trump, the country has slid closer ...

Israel will begin a contentious land regulation process in a large part of the occupied West Bank, which could result in Israel gaining control over wide swaths of the area for future development.

An Islamist party has become Bangladesh's main opposition for the first time in the country's history, challenging the old dynastic political system despite persistent concerns among critics about the ...

NPR's Leila Fadel asks Kurt Volker, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO, for his takeaways following this year's Munich Security Conference.