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When the U.S. launched airstrikes over the past week in Iraq, Syria and Yemen, the idea was to send a message to another country: Iran.

Thursday's presidential debate is the first time — and one of the only times — voters will see President Biden and former President Donald Trump side by side ahead of November.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says dark money surrounds the Supreme Court. She and other members of Congress will meet to discuss an 'ethics crisis' in the Supreme Court.

An estimated 21.3 million adult U.S. citizens don't have or can't easily access documents proving their citizenship. The findings raise concerns about requiring proof when registering eligible voters.

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is emerging from a four-year metamorphosis. Eighty-two copies of Shakespeare’s “First Folio” will be together on public display for the first time.

A cadre of Johns Hopkins nurses are adapting a model for primary care that's been successful in Costa Rica. They will visit every household in a Baltimore community to assess health care and social needs at least once a year.

The Clifford family was as prepared as possible to welcome Terrance the octopus. But there was one thing they missed: she was pregnant. And then she laid a whole lot of eggs.

The term "book ban" is used a lot in media and elsewhere when addressing the rise in challenges to certain books being allowed in schools and public libraries. But is it more political hyperbole or a censorship alarm bell?

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with lead actor Joel Basman and director David Schalko about his German-Austrian miniseries Kafka on early 20th century author Franz Kafka, released in the U.S. from June 6.

A little-known Social Security program was supposed to lift people out of poverty. Sometimes it traps them there instead.