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Bob Kane gets all the credit for creating the superhero. But author Marc Tyler Nobleman argues that a long-forgotten writer, Bill Finger, created almost everything we now associate with the Dark Knight, from his cape and cowl costume to the name Gotham City.

A grand jury handed down indictments on 13 Russians for carrying out "information warfare" on the 2016 campaign, detailing years of efforts to hack American politics.

Employers are exploring wearable technologies to keep workers safe. Devices collect biometric data to estimate signs of heat stress and prompt workers to take a break before their health deteriorates.

For years, researchers have been trying to shut down a mosquito's ability to transmit certain diseases. Brazil is making a massive investment in the effort, aimed at throttling dengue levels.

Officials say rescuers in Nepal have pulled two workers alive from a tunnel Friday during an ongoing operation. The rescues come nine days after the Aug. 26 floods.

Declining population means caring for parents, grandparents, and other relatives could become even more challenging with fewer professionals and family members to pitch in.

Top Trump administration officials are in Europe this week, with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attending his first NATO meeting and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Paris to discuss Ukraine.

Robert Siegel speaks with Dana Leigh Marks, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, about the legal process facing unaccompanied children who cross the U.S.-Mexico border.

"During the pandemic, basically everything is pointed in the wrong direction," says one federal health official, who calls the convergence of COVID-19 and America's addiction crisis "a nightmare."

Southern California was hit by another big earthquake Friday, after one struck the day before.

Artemis II, the first crewed mission to the Moon in more than 50 years, is set to launch as early as 6:24 p.m. Wednesday.

Sportswriter Adrian Wojnarowski is known for fast breaking news on ESPN. He's leaving the network -- and a contract worth millions of dollars -- to join his alma mater's basketball program.

Camp Roundup, a summer camp experience for fat women, was held for the first time this year in Newark, Ohio.

NPR's David Greene talks to Jon Stewart, former host of The Daily Show, about Irresistible, which stars Steve Carell and Rose Byrne. Stewart wrote and directed the comedy set in the world of politics.

On Friday's Roundup, we discussed the Florida Supreme Court ruling that former felons have to first finish paying any fines and fees they still owe...

Solomon Peña is accused of conspiring with and paying four men to carry out four shootings at the Albuquerque-area homes of two Bernalillo County commissioners and two state legislators, Albuquerque police said.

After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, English teacher Sarah Lerner was displaced from her classroom. Now she’s going back.

Ciara sobs as she recounts how, as a middle schooler, she helplessly witnessed her mother's downward spiral into drug addiction, an affliction that left...

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with three journalists from different parts of the world who report on Washington for their home publications, about this week in U.S. politics.

The bill is meant to encourage home construction, and would ban corporate investors from buying up more homes to rent out.

Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer Hilton Als says we "don't actually have much silence left" in our world. His latest exhibition challenges the way we see art, identity and storytelling.

Last night Beyonce dropped some new music on the world. NPR's Rachel Martin takes a moment to listen to it.

More than 3.5 million infusions of antibodies have been used to treat COVID. The treatment is being phased out because the antibodies have lost their efficacy against new variants of coronavirus.

When Kathleen Turner made her first movie 25 years ago, she wasn't convinced she could produce a convincingly sexy stare. Today, she still commands attention, in the role of Martha in the touring version of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

When the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplace opened last year, Beth and Doug Warner of St. Petersburg asked a navigator to enroll them. But they...