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After residents complained they were being held hostage by pooping, screaming birds, Miami officials voted to cull some of the hundreds of peacocks that roam the streets of Coconut Grove.

Rains have put out the last of the fires in Australia's New South Wales. Biologist Lesley Hughes tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about damage in the burned areas and whether regeneration is possible.

Kenya has seen an uptick in the number of attacks by Islamist al-Shabab insurgents, including on a base housing U.S. troops. That has left Kenyans in the northeast of the country very nervous.

Sidewalk Labs is a sister company of Google, which is why some Toronto residents are worried about its plan to develop a high-tech, green neighborhood where sensors collect data on people's movements.

The Trump administration is taking credit for finalizing cleanup of one of America's biggest and most infamous Superfund sites: Butte, Montana. But the reality is more complicated.

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to reporter Keri Blakinger of The Marshall Project about the shift in how some news outlets are using mug shots.

Health officials have confirmed that four people in South Florida appear to have contracted Zika from local mosquitoes. They're the first cases of local transmission on the U.S. mainland.

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews linguist Deborah Tannen about the nuances behind the adjectives "woman," "female" and others, when discussing occupations.

Israel says the remains of three hostages have been handed over from Gaza and will be examined by forensic experts as a month-old ceasefire holds.

A three-judge panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down a North Carolina law that requited voter identification. The unanimous decision found the law was "passed with racially discriminatory intent."