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The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Elsa to a tropical storm. Heavy rains and gusty winds continue to spread inland across southwest and west-central Florida.

During a special pandemic enrollment period, the Biden administration is trying to make getting health insurance irresistible by making it easier to sign up and making plans more affordable.

The Biden Administration has asked the World Health Organization to push China harder for answers about what started COVID-19. But some experts say increased public pressure on China may backfire.

A little boy and his Moshom — which means grandfather in Swampy Cree — travel north to visit the trapline where, many years ago, the grandfather grew up living off the land.

Coastal communities will need massive amounts of mud and dirt to protect their shorelines from rising seas. One federal agency has it, but most is disposed of instead of reused.

The Virginia Theological Seminary has launched one of the U.S.'s first cash reparations programs. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Ian Markham, president and dean of VTS, and Gerald Wanzer, a shareholder.

With more ticks carrying disease than ever, here's what you need to know about which ticks to watch out for and what to do if you get bitten.

"Recycle art activist" Thomas Dambo makes these gentle giants out of scrap wood, old pallets, twigs and debris. Dozens of them now preside over mountains, forests and parks around the world.

The news is a blow to UNC, which had its reputation damaged by its trustees' initial reluctance to grant tenure to Hannah-Jones. Howard also announced writer Ta-Nehisi Coates will join its faculty.

Employers from Amazon to Disney World are offering big hiring incentives right now. While they're a great tool for employers, they're not always as good for workers.

Police made the arrests after uncovering an attempt to make explosives and plant bombs across the city. Of the nine arrested, six are secondary school students.

The Antonov An-26 plane missed a scheduled communication earlier Tuesday and disappeared from radar when flying from the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the town of Palana, officials said.

He was one of nearly 1,400 people stranded aboard the Viking Sky cruise ship off the coast of Norway in 2019. It changed his life.

The Gun Violence Archive reports that shootings across the country this holiday weekend claimed the lives of more than 180 people.

How do we understand Blue in the 21st century? Can we think of Mitchell's 1971 album, long considered the apex of confessional songwriting, as a paradigm not of raw emotion, but of care and craft?

A new report says commanders need training to learn how to stop what an official described as "daily acts of demeaning language and sexual harassment" in the military.

Richardson has accepted a one-month suspension after testing positive for THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana.

Summer television and summer movies are colliding on screens this summer, and it can be hard to navigate it all. But not to worry: We've got the highlights you won't want to miss this month.

An anthropologist put out a call: Take a photo of 15 essential items that help you cope.. She heard from 1,000-plus people in 50 countries. There's a lot of laptops — as well as wonderful surprises.

New rules take effect today, completing an overhaul of the once-troubled federal TEACH Grant program that makes it easier for teachers to pay for college.