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Scientists are still studying whether the deworming medicine could have any effect on COVID-19. But the frenzy over the drug has far more to do with politics than science. Here's how that happened.

Video posted to social media showed students jumping from second-story windows, apparently to escape the attack. Russian officials said the suspect, a student, had been detained.

We kept track of all the shows that won at the 73rd Primetime Emmys, so you didn't have to.

NPR's Life Kit has tips for how to get back on the dating scene for those 50 and older.

A volcano on Spain's Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma erupted Sunday after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity. Lava flows destroyed isolated homes on the nearby mountainside.

Authorities believe the body discovered near Grand Teton National Park on Sunday is Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito, who went missing on a trip with her boyfriend. The cause of death is not yet known.

Kabul's interim mayor did not give an exact number on just how many female employees would be forced to stay home because of the new rule. Previously about a third of city employees were women.

The Crown, Hacks, Ted Lasso and The Queen's Gambit all did well on Sunday night. But the Emmys also laid bare the problems with production and representation that plague nearly every awards season.

Flames have already scorched a grouping of sequoias that mark the entrance to the groves, where the base of the world's largest tree has been wrapped in protective foil.

Child care workers from outside the U.S. often buy health coverage through an agency. But those policies can have big gaps, critics warn. ACA plans are comprehensive and, with subsidies, can be cheap.

The atmosphere throughout this account is foreboding, darkened by the shadow COVID-19 cast over the country but also by the dangers to democracy the authors perceive and depict.

Colette Maze, now 107, began playing the piano at age 5. She defied the social conventions of her era to embrace music as a profession rather than as a pastime. She has just released her sixth album.

Pfizer and BioNTech say that early trial results show their vaccine established a strong antibody response against the coronavirus. FDA review is still needed.

President Biden gives his first address to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday. He may find some skepticism for his pitch to work together on COVID-19 and climate after some recent decisions.

Dakota, a former leader of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community whose garage casino in Michigan's Upper Peninsula in 1983 was a milestone for Native American gambling, died on Monday.

The Senate parliamentarian said including a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants was beyond the scope of the process Democrats are using to pass key legislation without GOP votes.

Dr. Alan Braid said that his decision to perform an abortion past the six-week mark earlier this month was a matter of duty.

Investigations into former President Donald Trump's family business by the Manhattan district attorney and the New York state attorney general are still underway, and more indictments may be coming.

A new PBS series explores the life of the late American icon and boxing legend Muhammad Ali. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with series co-director, Ken Burns.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Nelson G. Navarrete, co-director of the documentary A La Calle, and Leopoldo Lopez, one of the Venezuelan opposition leaders featured in the film.