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DNA combined with the study of family history has been used to solve high-profile cold cases such as the Golden State Killer. Now, volunteers are using the technique to identify crime victims.

President Trump has threatened to declare an emergency to go around Congress and build a border wall. The same law that gives him that power also gives Congress the ability to push back.

No matter where in the globe former President Bush's pursuits took him, he circled back every year, as if tethered, to Walker's Point — his family's estate in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Prosecutors for special counsel Robert Mueller say former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn has provided substantial help to investigators and deserves leniency in sentencing.

Giant gyres of plastic in the ocean grab headlines, but it's the tiny bits of plastic that scare scientists. And they've made their way everywhere, a new study finds — including in our seafood.

A look at the highly-integrated U.S. Mexico beef market as President Trump threatens to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports. Almost equal amounts of beef pass both ways across the border.

The U.S. agricultural sector has been hit hard by the trade conflict with China. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says some of the aid money will be used to build markets elsewhere.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Kevin Lowry, former Chief U.S. Probation Officer, about a program he's involved with to deradicalize convicted terrorists.

Jayson Greene's young daughter died in a tragic random accident; his new memoir chronicles how he and his wife got to a place where they understood they could still experience joy.

The video was viewed about 4,000 times before Facebook removed it. Then the social media platform had to contend with more than a million attempted re-uploads.