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The Islamic State is losing territory in Iraq and Syria but is trying to keep its supporters' spirits up through song. Its newest release, "My State Remains," reveals an organization down but not out.

Sometimes people who fall great distances survive. How do they get so lucky? Scientists share the secrets of an implausible safe landing.

As more culinary robots find their way into commercial food prep, one restaurant in San Francisco called Creator is hoping to strike a balance between high tech and the human touch.

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the first female mayor in Freetown in years, is trying to clean up the perpetual mess caused by rain and garbage — a first step in her plan to revive the beleaguered city.

Mrs. Trump visited a children's shelter in McAllen, Texas. But much of the online chatter was about a jacket she wore — with the president himself tweeting about the garment and its message.

Philosopher Alva Noë discusses what he calls Carlo Rovelli's "readable bestseller" Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, newly translated into English from its original Italian.

The plight of migrant families at the U.S. southern border was also mentioned, amid discussions of exploiting laborers and treating people of a different race as chattel in the slave era.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks reporter James Fredrick and deported Honduran immigrant John for an update on John's life in Honduras and about his daughter, Marisol, who's still in the U.S.

These days hospitals are looking for ways to improve health in their communities to prevent illness and control costs. One hospital in Ohio decided that health might start with affordable housing.

A look back at the extraordinary creative souls we lost in 2018, from producer Richard Swift and opera singer Montserrat Caballé to rapper Mac Miller and Aretha Franklin.