Tens of thousands marched through Madrid on Saturday to protest Spain's housing crisis and the eviction of an 87-year-old ...

Hurricane Nolo edged further away from the Hawaiian Islands on Sunday as major Hurricane Polo bore down on Mexico's Baja ...

Cormac Toler-Scott, lead researcher on the team at the University of British Columbia that discovered the new species, told ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with former assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East Dana Stroul about the latest ceasefire proposal from Iran.

President Trump has rejected the latest Iranian proposal to end the conflict. Meanwhile, France is sending military support to Saudi Arabia in its war against Iranian-backed militants.

British police arrested five men on suspicion of plotting a van bomb attack near a military base in Gloucestershire used by the United States Air Force.

A new field of study called "smoke ecology" strives to understand the smoke blowing off wildfires, and whether anything can be done to protect the environment's inhabitants from it.

California health officials are on the lookout for new measles cases, after someone with the vaccine-preventable disease rode a passenger train and busses through six counties.

Some communities dispatch mental health clinicians as an alternative to a police response for emergency calls. Researchers consider a program in Durham, North Carolina, to be a success.

Northeast coastal communities are assessing damage from an early-season nor'easter that brought high winds and lashing rain, coinciding with high tides from Virginia to southern Maine.

The Protect College Sports Act is on the brink of passing in the Senate, where a handful of former college athletes who are ...

Many thousands of boys and men in Lesotho take up the vital profession of herding but have to give up their education. A ...