What happened in the days, even hours, after an asteroid set off the fifth extinction? A New Jersey quarry, and site of a new museum founded by paleontologist Ken Lacovara, sheds light on the mystery.

Michael Gonzales, the ambassador to Zambia, announced at an emotional press conference that the U.S. would cut $50 million in ...

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Pope Francis welcomed the LGBT community into the Catholic Church. What will his successor mean for the community?

Friday morning, newly-elected Pope Leo XIV led his first public mass as head of the Catholic Church: ...

Faulty DNA tests being used in criminal cases in Texas could impact about 700 cases. Under some circumstances, these tests were incorrectly coming back as insufficient DNA to test.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Vinay Kwatra, Indian ambassador to the U.S., about the violent conflict between India and Pakistan.

Chinese consumers have less and less confidence to splurge, which spells trouble for government efforts to jump-start consumer spending to offset deflation and mitigate the trade war with the U.S.

President Trump fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, via email late Thursday night, the latest in a string of ...

The Department of Agriculture is demanding sensitive data from states about more than 40 million food stamp recipients, as DOGE is amassing data for immigration enforcement.

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