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Hawaii faces devastation Friday as residents grapple with the damage from blazing wildfires on Maui Island.

A top FBI agent whose job was to hunt for spies, including Russian spies, turned out to be cozying up with a Russian industrialist.

A judge ordered rapper Tory Lanez to spend the next 10 years in prison for shooting fellow artist Megan Thee Stallion in the foot after they left a party in Los Angeles three years ago.

The MTV show Yo! MTV Raps helped bring hip-hop into mainstream American culture in the 1980s and was made by a scrappy team in the face of a skeptical corporate network.

"Ancient DNA" may help Black Americans trace enslaved and free ancestors whose names and stories were never recorded.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled earlier this week to restrict access to mifepristone, an abortion pill.

Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway's 2010 book "Merchants of Doubt" explored how four physicists laid the groundwork for climate change denial by arguing against government regulation and in favor of the free market.

The incident prompted a fierce discussion on first amendment rights.

Schools are closed Monday in the nation’s second-largest school district in Los Angeles, as inspectors get a better handle on potential storm impacts from Hilary.

The state's new rules alter curriculums around African American history and topics involving LGBTQ people.

"Freewater" centers around a colony of escaped slaves in the Great Dismal Swamp and won this year's Newberry Medal as well as the Coretta Scott King award.

One of the last things Yevgeny Prigozhin did before he died in a fiery plane crash near Moscow was post a recruitment video from an undesignated site in Africa.

Nearly 1 in 5 Washington, D.C., residents live at or below the poverty line, but affordable-housing developers are having trouble selling units.

As better alternatives emerge, doctors are increasingly either skipping radiation or using less of it. Studies show that outcomes are similar with or without radiation with certain early-stage cancers.

The union's current contract expires next week.

Labor Day marks the end of summer and a travel season that left many passengers stuck on the runway for hours. So if you have an airline trip in the near future, you'll want to know your rights.

According to the Romance Writers of America, 18% of the genre's readers are men.

The strike will put more pressure on the carrier to meet their demands over pay raises.

While the booming industry is bringing more jobs to rural areas, some residents are concerned about impacts to their health and safety.

Fifty years ago this month, some teenagers threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Today that party is considered by many "the birth of hip-hop."

Wired reports a 70% drop in Airbnbs available in the city, while there is also a reported uptick in the number of long-term rentals in the city.

Many are frustrated with the Moroccan government’s decision to accept aid from only four countries, despite offers of help from across the world.

Jean Guerrero tells NPR's Michel Martin about her new book, Crux: A Cross Border Memoir, in which she crisscrosses the U.S.-- Mexico border to discover her family history.

Two conservative lawyers have made the case that the 14th Amendment bars former President Donald Trump from seeking the Oval Office again.

Speaking with CBS News' 60 Minutes, President-elect Barack Obama said he favors a college football playoff instead of the current bowl game system. On that issue and more, NPR's Tony Cox speaks with bloggers Kevin Figgers and Carron Phillips.