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College basketball's March Madness has begun, the latest on American basketball star Brittney Griner who's detained in Russia, and a controversial trade shakes up the NFL.

Students are pitching in to help ease staffing shortages in Missouri's Northwest School District. Teens Carissa Lunte and Savannah Darner share their experiences for our series "Outbreak Voices."

The Pacific purple sea urchin's appetite for kelp threatens marine ecosystems along the California coast as it ravages the "lungs of the ocean." The solution, biologists say, might be on our plates.

The rise of the more infectious BA.2 variant in the U.S. — plus signals in the sewage — also point to a possible uptick in cases, and have health officials on alert.

The exhibit showcases photographs of real people in the region who are struggling with affordable housing, but are performing jobs that are making other people’s lives more comfortable.

The U.S. Senate still must pass the CROWN Act before it can be approved by President Biden.

Schools in Afghanistan are expected to open for the new semester Wednesday. But despite Taliban assurances that girls will be allowed back, students and teachers are unclear about what will happen.

Next week the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal judge President Biden has tapped as his Supreme Court nominee.

The SEC is expected on Monday to propose new requirements for companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and risks to their businesses from climate change.

Dr. Raul Pino was placed on leave in January following an email he sent to staff members urging them to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Parts of Antarctica were more than 70 degrees warmer than average, and areas of the Arctic saw temperatures that were more than 50 degrees warmer than average.

A number of high-profile bills await Gov. DeSantis’s signature — bills that govern teaching about sexual orientation in schools, how companies conduct training around racial issues at work, and that give parents more control over school books.

While he is retiring from broadcasting Florida State athletics, Deckerhoff says he will quote “finish his commitment” to calling Tampa Bay Buccaneers games in the NFL.

Before the war, Mariupol residents Tetiana Myhalyova and metalworker Victor Perederiy had never met. But after sheltering for weeks without heat or water, they decided to escape together.

A federal judge found Couy Griffin, a county commissioner from New Mexico and founder of the group "Cowboys For Trump," guilty on one of two counts stemming from the Capitol riot.

Rhea Law, a Tampa lawyer who previously served as chair of USF's Board of Trustees, is the first alum to lead the university.

In a statement posted to Twitter, Psaki says she had two "socially-distanced meetings" with President Biden on Monday and said he was not considered a close contact. His most recent test was negative.

The company warned consumers of several tainted lots of Accuretic and two other versions of the drug because of the presence of a nitrosamine above the acceptable daily intake level.

The New York Times columnist says the stroke forced him to make a decision: He could focus on what had been lost or on what remained. He chose the latter. Bruni's new memoir is The Beauty of Dusk.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's plan to boost defense spending could remake Germany's beleaguered military into the strongest armed forces in Europe — an idea that has met resistance in the past.

A Missouri radio station is airing Russian state-funded broadcasts. In a rare move, the National Association of Broadcasters called for stations to cease airing state-sponsored programming.

In 2008, a flight nurse was grounded in her third trimester. Then her colleagues were killed in mid-air. The tragedy led her to help the medical flight industry change its safety protocols.

More than 3 million Ukrainians have fled their homes since the Russian invasion began. The U.S. has pledged to help — but Ukrainian-Americans are finding it difficult to bring their relatives over.

Judge Katanji Brown Jackson faced a marathon day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with A.J. Kramer, federal public defender for the District of Columbia, about his time as supervisor of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.