This year, some American Muslims say they feel politically homeless — not understood or welcomed by either Republicans or Democrats.

Despite a federal moratorium, there have already been thirteen state executions this year. And in the next week, five people are scheduled to die.

Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees have fled to Chad, where they're facing increasingly difficult conditions as their presence strains local resources and humanitarian aid organizations.

New data samples from the Wuhan market points to an intermingling of SARS-CoV-2, raccoon dogs and humans. The authors of a new paper say it bolsters the animal origin theory. Other researchers object.

Vocalist, guitarist, and jazz icon George Benson joins Christian McBride for a conversation about his early years on the jazz ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with three women, all Democrats, about Kamala Harris' historic candidacy and why they plan on voting for her.

Where there are humans, there are rats. But new research says we still have a lot to learn about our furry, often reviled, companions.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about "scuba-diving" lizards, a trick to turn a mouse's skin transparent and whether finger counting helps kids' math skills.

Ryan Routh, the alleged apparent would-be assassin of Donald Trump, has a complex and confusing past. He spent more than half of his life in Greensboro, N.C., and had many legal run-ins.

In Lebanon, hospitals are still dealing with a crush of patients maimed by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies this week. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has vowed retaliation.

Harrison Patrick Smith’s debut album as The Dare, What’s Wrong With New York, fuses pop, rock and electro, and his music has drawn comparisons to the sounds of New York in the 2000s.

A lawsuit accuses Miley Cyrus and others of duplicating a song by Bruno Mars in order to create her hit "Flowers." A closer look reveals a legal strategy driven by a bigger trend in music business.