We take you inside one of Syria's factories that produced captagon, the illegal stimulant that helped keep the Assad regime afloat.

Montana's supreme court finds that the state's failure to address climate change violates kids' right to a clean and healthful environment.

Early interactions with the Earth may have heated up the Moon and caused it to remelt, producing new lunar rocks and erasing ...

The high court said Wednesday it will review a challenge submitted by TikTok asking for the overturn of a law that could ban ...

Former foster youth earn degrees at a lower rate compared with the general population. A program in Virginia is trying to change that.

A report warns that a major increase in U.S. natural gas exports may raise energy costs and worsen environmental impacts. That's at odds with the expected policy of the incoming Trump administration.

Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank are worried about an escalation of attacks from right wing settlers who are feeling emboldened with a new ally coming to the White House.

Brady Corbet's monumental drama, The Brutalist, chronicles the journey of a Jewish architect who comes to the U.S. in 1947 and creates a troubled and troubling masterpiece.

NPR's Books We Love is our big year-end compilation shouted out by staff and critics. Today, we look at some of the submissions of sci-fi, fantasy, and speculative fiction.

"Hospital at home" allowed Medicare and Medicaid to pay for intense treatment of patients in their homes. It's set to expire on Dec. 31 unless Congress acts. A five-year extension is on the table.

At a federal prison in rural Virginia, more than 50 prisoners say they've been abused. But when they try to file a complaint--they're stopped, often by the same guards they say are abusing them.

Carol Zimmerman, news editor at the National Catholic Reporter, went to see the purported skull of St. Thomas Aquinas. She tells NPR's Ailsa Chang about its importance to Catholics and her experience.