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The National Science Foundation's Ice Core Facility in Lakewood, Colorado, holds the largest archive of ice in the world.

Western media outlets have been barred unless they embed with Israeli forces and agree to certain conditions.

Herd immunity of close to 95% is needed to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases. And yet, the state continues to see a decline in the vaccination rate among children since the pandemic.

One of the world's oldest and busiest subway systems has ground to halt. London Underground workers are on strike, leaving some 4 million commuters stranded.

A long-simmering conflict is escalating in southeastern Turkey between government forces and Kurdish rebels known as the PKK. According to a local human-rights organization, the conflict left about 500 people dead last year, including government soldiers and police officers.

He'll visit the capital later this month.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hoover Institution fellow Lanhee Chen and Errin Haines of The 19th about the Capitol riot, President Trump's second impeachment and the incoming administration.

"Based on information currently available, the U.S. government assesses that members of Russia's forces have committed war crimes in Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.

Closing arguments in the landmark seditious conspiracy trial against five Proud Boys focused on their own words and the words of former President Trump.

The college credit exams were moved online in response to the pandemic. But many students don't have Internet access at home. Up until Friday, one senior planned to take her tests in a parking lot.

Rossington was the last surviving original founding member of the Southern rock band, known for its anthemic "Free Bird," among many other hit songs.

Mario Livio's new book profiles five brilliant scientists and thinkers who, despite their seminal contributions to our understanding of the world, were also wrong about some big questions. Commentator Adam Frank says Livio's engaging work highlights how the collective process that is science always gets it right in the end.

Osgood, who anchored CBS Sunday Morning for more than two decades and hosted the long-running radio program The Osgood File, died Tuesday home in New Jersey. The cause was dementia, his family said.

Despite increased awareness, research advances and wider insurance coverage for therapies, children often wait months to get an autism diagnosis and begin intervention services.

Fifteen Oregon counties are designated "extreme risk" for COVID-19 due to high infection rates. Rural Linn County's public health office is working to convince people there to get vaccinated.

Some people team up with an "accountability partner" or "accountability group" to accomplish big goals or tasks. Here's how to set up a successful partnership.

In the series finale, we finally get an answer to the "will they, won't they" question that's been surrounding Issa and Lawrence since Season 1—but that won't define the show's legacy.

The president was opposed to abortion rights and his vice president was the first to speak at one of their decades-old rallies. But that doesn't mean everyone at the March For Life backed Trump.

Fiona Mozley's book Elmet explores masculinity in both male and female characters. "When we sort of see a woman possessing unexpected or fantastical physical strength it's questioned more," she says.

Sometimes "the one that got away" is a book that actually was easy to overlook. And sometimes it's something you ignore until you just can't anymore. NPR's Lynn Neary finally comes to terms with the publishing sensation that is Fifty Shades of Grey.

Renée Watson won the Coretta Scott King Award for her novel about a black student at a mostly white private school.

In her debut memoir Mary Anna King tells the story of her fractured upbringing and how — in the face of poverty — love and hard work were not sufficient to keep her family together.

Christopher Potter's new history of space flight, The Earth Gazers, charts the road to the first photographs of Earth — and how it changes an astronaut to glimpse the entire planet at once.

Former President George W. Bush sits down with host David Greene to discuss his new book, 41, a biography of his father and fellow former President George H.W. Bush.

A postindustrial small town in Nebraska. A young girl killed. A New York host who is "kind of a sociopath." It's all in the satirical news agency's take on serial audio storytelling.