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An Australian judge sentenced triple-murderer Erin Patterson to life in prison with a non-parole period of 33 years for poisoning four of her estranged husband's relatives with death cap mushrooms.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Jean-Martin Bauer Director of Food Security and Nutrition at the World Food Programme about the famine declaration in Gaza.

This year, Americans saw a strangely warm winter, a ridiculously hot summer and extreme drought conditions. As Hurricane Sandy advances on the East Coast, folks may be wondering if climate change has come to pass. Let's see what science can tell us.

Imagine a medical-malpractice system that resolves patients’ complaints of harm quickly, without rancor or legal fees. Imagine a system that would

From trading suits for sandals in search of offshore investments to risking cholesterol counts to sample fried butter - NPR journalists have canvassed the U.S. countless times over to report this election. We caught up with them to revisit some memorable moments that shaped NPR election coverage.

Mishaps, protests and litigation are overshadowing the vote recount in Florida’s pivotal races for governor and Senate, reviving memories of the 2000…

A state school-safety commission meeting got heated Wednesday as members tackled a range of issues stemming from a controversial school “guardian”…

In the 1980s and '90s, thousands of Cubans fleeing to the U.S. passed through Mariel port. Today, it's the site of an ambitious special economic zone that is filling many locals with optimism.

Florida’s Governor and House leaders are at each other’s throats over funding for Enterprise Florida and Visit Florida. Murmurs are growing louder...

Loosening regulations on who can own guns - and where they can be carried - is a hot topic in the run-up to this spring's legislative session in…

As they worked to craft the state's next budget, Florida lawmakers got some unexpected help Wednesday: hundreds of millions of dollars in federal...

A man stabbed people celebrating Hanukkah at the home of a rabbi in Rockland County, a New York City suburb, on Saturday night. The incident comes amid a surge of anti-Semitic violence in the region.

A Ukrainian-American businessman has helped Rudy Giuliani promote an unsubstantiated theory of corruption in Ukraine by Joe Biden, ahead of next year's presidential election.

After farmers and ranchers sustained heavy damage in Hurricane Irma, candidates for state agriculture commissioner are offering a variety of approaches...

In the year since the deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school, more and more states have passed laws making it easier to take guns away from people…

Some cities and regions in the heartland want to bring energy and vitality to their towns by attracting dynamic workers. The programs are getting a lot of attention during the pandemic.

Three brand-new cable channels all share exactly the same problem: How do you wrench the eyeballs of 20-somethings away from their gadgets and toward old-fashioned regular TV?

Rachel Martin talks to Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna about the U.S. decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord. U.S. allies failed to persuade President Trump to stay in.

NPR's Noel King talks to Rutgers historian Mark Bray about Antifa in America today, and the genesis of anti-fascist movements. Bray is the author of Antifa: The Anti-Facist Handbook.

The chief executives of Facebook, Twitter and Google face skepticism from a Senate committee over their decisions about what content to allow and what to take down from their platforms.

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Yale Professor of Law Cristina Rodriguez about President Biden's flurry of executive orders, and their limited ability to undo many Trump administration policies.

Melissa Block speaks with Andrew Tabler, senior fellow at the Washington Institute, about how U.S. strikes on ISIS impact the Bashar Assad regime.

The guilty verdict against the former officer has added new urgency around stalled talks on legislation to ban chokeholds and end qualified immunity for police. But the path remains far from clear.

It's Opening Day in baseball, and that means you'll still be able to eat unhealthy food while watching the game. But ordering that hot dog or beer will be different this year.

Law enforcement organizations across the country condemned former police officer Derek Chauvin's actions, but efforts to craft new local and national policing standards are riven by disagreement.