It was a true holiday gift this week to see an opinion piece in The New York Times by Pope Francis. In a short essay adapted ...

Federal regulators are taking aim at a popular category of psychoactive edibles that contain an iconic red-capped mushroom in ...

The driver was arrested shortly after the car barreled into the market at around 7 p.m. on Friday, when it was teeming with ...

Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is ...

The most visible use of AI in many countries was to create memes and content whose artificial origins weren't disguised. They ...

An impasse over the budget and the threat of a government shutdown dominated political news earlier this week.

An impasse over the budget and the threat of a government shutdown dominated political news earlier this week.

German officials say a 50-year-old Saudi doctor who moved to Germany in 2006 deliberately drove his car into a crowded outdoor Christmas market Friday.

About 300 Americans a year give a kidney to a complete stranger. Researchers have studied the brains of these very generous people, and say they may feel others' pain more than the average person.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., about the House GOP caucus and the Dec. 20 stopgap funding vote.

The Kurdish coalition that controls a third of Syria and helped the US fight ISIS is facing a new reality after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad. NATO ally Turkey sees them as a threat and is demanding ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adrien Brody about his new film, "The Brutalist." The Oscar-winner plays an architect and Holocaust survivor striving to fulfill his artistic vision in America.