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Germany is reeling under a heatwave. Temperatures are expected to rise to the high 90s — a bigger deal when a country has little to no air conditioning.

Catherine Serou, a U.S. citizen studying in Russia, has been missing since she got into a car with a stranger earlier this week.

The McLean County Health Department has announced its first COVID vaccination clinics for children ages 5 to 11 will be held on Nov. 9 and Nov. 16.

Unit 5 and District 87 leaders say they're hopeful that in-person learning can resume uninterrupted, but both say they're concerned that a surge in COVID cases will exacerbate staff shortages.

Attempts to remove books from school libraries have increased, spurred by activism from conservative parent groups and resistance to teaching socially progressive ideas in schools.

Nella's debut album, Voy, is a meditation on the land she's left behind. The work earned her a 2019 Latin Grammy nomination in the category of Best New Artist.

Ethical investing is popular with many Americans. But what is it exactly? NPR's Life Kit it breaks down.

In the past decade, nearly 100 young women have been murdered in a grisly series of sexual homicides in the ramshackle border town of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. NPR's John Burnett talks to the city's most vulnerable women -- factory workers, students, prostitutes -- and to groups seaching for answers, and safety. View a photo gallery, and listen to an extended interview with women's right advocates fighting for safer streets.

"We finally have the first look at our Milky Way black hole, Sagittarius A*," an international team of astrophysicists and researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope team said.

Haiti's once-flourishing coffee trade has been badly battered. The latest threat: climate change. Locals who still rely on coffee for their livelihood must learn to grow it in changing climes.