A Supreme Court ruling eliminated the requirement of sheltering homeless people in some states. Advocates worry the ruling also motivates cities hostile to shelters to get rid of them altogether.

The day after the worst plane crash by a South Korean airline on Korean soil, the focus turned to returning victims' bodies to their families and investigating the cause of the crash.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Margie Mason, investigative reporter at the AP, about the alleged exploitation and abuse of the prison labor force in Alabama.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Stuart Eizenstat, a top domestic policy advisor in the Carter White House, about how former President Jimmy Carter put human rights at the center of foreign policy.

Eyewitness testimony from several prisoners held for years in Syria's most notorious prison tell NPR about systematic executions. They recall details of how mass murder was committed and covered up.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and ...

An Argentine judge ordered pretrial detention for two of the charged for suppling Payne with drugs. Prosecutors had filed ...

Magnus Carlsen, the No. 1 ranked chess player, quit the World Rapid Chess Championship in New York on Friday after refusing ...

Chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is at the World Blitz Championship — a competition he has won seven times previously — after ...

Trump contended the trial court judge erred in several rulings — including decisions to allow the testimony of two women who ...

Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfliling a young boy's dream of ...

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' ...