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A big difference between humans and other apes is the ability to stride easily on two feet. A new analysis of fossil bones shows that adaptations for bipedal walking go back 7 million years.

In Asheville, N.C., hundreds of people still live in RV's 16 months after Hurricane Helene, and staying warm in freezing temperatures is a challenge.

Restaurants in Minneapolis have shifted their business strategies -- and their missions -- around the federal immigration push in the Twin Cities region.

On "Aperture," the lead single from his upcoming album, the pop artist mines a different era of pop music.

It was a rare attack in the capital of Pakistan as its Western-allied government struggles to rein in a surge in militant attacks across the country.

The suspect who attacked a synagogue in Michigan lost family members in an Israeli strike in Lebanon on March 5. Relatives and neighbors in his hometown share their views on his actions.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Amby Burfoot, former editor of Runner's World, about his longtime friend Jeff Galloway who pioneered the run/walk method. Jeff Galloway died Feb. 25.

This year, statisticians are hoping to predict who will win big at the Oscars by using the same methods they used to predict the 2012 presidential election. Host Jacki Lyden gets the latest number-crunching Oscar predictions from Conor Gaughan from Farsite.com. We'll also hear from David Rothschild from Microsoft Research and Joel Windels of Brandwatch.

A Senate bill to end the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security is facing stiff resistance in the House, leaving funding for the agency in doubt.

Humanity is not on track to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Delegations from nearly 200 countries are meeting to discuss promises they made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. will nearly double its contingent for the women's half marathon championship to fix what officials call an unprecedented problem: an official vehicle took the leading runners off the course.

Israel says it has killed the leader of Hamas' military wing, one of the architects of the Oct, 7, 2023, attacks that triggered the war in Gaza.

An attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner on Saturday has, again, highlighted the climate of political violence in the U.S. But there are still many questions about the motive.

A large blast rocked southern Beirut after Israel vowed to strike at Hezbollah for a rocket attack in Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on the Lebanon Border.

Cold War reports of mysterious rotating saucers; recent sightings of metallic elliptical objects floating in mid-air. Those and other reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena or UAPs — the military's term for UFOs — are described in documents released Friday.

Former national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned Monday after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Washington Post reporter Adam Entous, who has been following the story.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to meet President Trump, who might be changing U.S. policy on settlements, Jerusalem and Israel's adversary — Iran.

David Attenborough's acclaimed nature series Life on Earth began production 50 years ago. Now, a PBS documentary captures the host looking back on that series as it's projected in a screening room.

Authorities in the U.S. territory of Northern Mariana Islands are just beginning to assess the damage from Super Typhoon Sinlaku. Power was out and many of the roads were impassable across Saipan, the largest of the islands.

Swimmer Léon Marchand has dazzled at the Paris Olympics so far, winning gold and winning over a country who loves to support him.