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A service in car-dependent LA is attracting lots of clients. Chuck McCarthy is an actor who started a people walking business. For $7 a mile, he'll take humans on walks. He chats but mostly listens.

The city will change the iconic Hollywood sign on Mount Lee. The temporary reconstruction started Monday, and when the makeover is complete, the sign will read: Rams House.

A truck moved Tim Brown's 139-year-old Victorian house six blocks at less than a mile an hour, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It took years of planning, 15 permits and sawed off tree limbs.

Maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen was exploring Lake Mendota when she saw what might have been a log. Instead it was a 15-foot-long dugout canoe which was carved somewhere around the year 800.

Neighbors of the three white men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery testified at their hate crimes trial about how the afternoon unfolded.

The prestigious award comes with nearly $1.5 million in winnings. The physicist, who teaches at Dartmouth and has written for NPR, says he's driven by the "many questions we still have no clue about."

In 2023 Illinois lawmakers will push to pass a ban on assault weapons, months after the Highland Park parade shooting left seven dead and more injured.

President Trump's tariffs could hit the economy badly and lead to higher inflation. But Wall Street investors are reacting by sending stocks to record highs.

PEPFAR is the "most amazing thing in the history of HIV," says Dr. Sharon Lewin, president of the International AIDS Society. Bush himself came to Washington this month to urge reauthorization..

In early primary and caucus states, there are well-known places — diners, fairs, union halls — where candidates connect with voters. Here are some of the classics and a few new spots.

The plans for the upcoming season will be to distribute 2,560 bags for oyster harvest, down from 4,726 bags used in the past January-February timeframe.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., has announced that she opposes the health care bill in its current form. She cited cuts to Medicaid and what the bill would mean for people with opioid addiction.

Air traffic control lost contact with the Cessna just 15 minutes after takeoff, the NTSB tells NPR. The wayward business jet set off military and defense alarms in the national capital area.

The Spanish province of Catalonia is forming its own space agency to stimulate the high-tech industry. Critics see it as another attempt to separate the region from Spain.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio told the Miami Herald editorial board he has "stood by everything I ever said" during his presidential campaign.

Let's revisit some of 2022's still relevant queries. Like: Does one-way masking help? What's the risk of outdoor transmission? What's up with faint lines on tests?

Science fiction's job is to give us a map of where we're headed. From Jules Verne to William Gibson, sci-fi authors describe their visions of the future, and how people might live in it. We ask Intel's futurist for his list of favorite sci-fi books.

The captain of the 6,852-ton ferry has been criticized for allowing 30 minutes to pass before giving an evacuation order. He has been arrested, even as a recovery effort continues.

People sometimes take prescription drugs to keep from getting sick at high altitudes. But medical researchers wondered whether ibuprofen, the painkilling mainstay, would be an effective over-the-counter alternative. The results look promising.

Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott supports limiting abortion, with exceptions. Scott has said that if he were still Florida’s governor, he would have signed the state’s current six-week abortion ban, which includes some exceptions.

Harold Fry is retired and sedentary — and in no way the sort of person who'd spontaneously decide to walk the length of England to visit a dying friend. Rachel Joyce's new novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, follows Fry as he does just that — and finds emotional awakening along the way.

Diane Johnson has spent much of her adult life living in France, writing novels like Le Divorce. But it was not until a visit home, to the Midwestern town of Moline, IL, that the Johnson discovered that her pioneer ancestors had lives worthy of writing about. Her new book, Flyover Lives reconstructs their stories.

Two of Florida’s largest counties, Palm Beach and Broward, have started a process that could take opioid drug makers to court for their roles in the...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Robert Wang from the Center For Strategic and International Studies, about the U.S. role with China after Taiwan reelected the Democratic Progressive Party.

The visual problem is usually treated in kids by temporarily covering the other eye with a patch. But that doesn't always work. Research now shows crucial brain rewiring can happen in adulthood, too.