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The wildfires consuming parts of Southern California are becoming a new normal for the state, climatologists say. They're driven by a warming ocean, high winds and drought.

The EMT crew on the front lines of one of the hardest-hit New Jersey towns is all volunteer. They say calls are getting more intense and more people are dying.

The majority of Americans disagree with judges who tried to overturn the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medical abortion pill mifepristone.

The U.S. Senate approved a long-awaited nuclear accord with India. The agreement ends a 34-year ban on nuclear trade with India. It will allow U.S. businesses to begin selling nuclear fuel, technology and reactors to India in exchange for safeguards and U.N. inspections at India's civilian nuclear plants.

The City of Peoria could be making personnel cuts to its police and fire departments for the first time in years. Other areas will take cuts too and the...

Manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is threatening to pull out of a $25.4 billion merger with the Guidant Corporation, despite having received federal approval for the deal on Wednesday.

A year after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School, there are plans to build a new school on a different location than the one where the mass shooting took place.

New vaccines usually take years to get the approval of the Food and Drug Administration. But the Trump administration suggests the FDA may greenlight a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.

Of the two versions of the genome map, one is by for-profit Celera Genomics, the other by a publicly funded group led by the National Institutes of Health. They've chosen the world's two foremost science journals to publish their work, and therein lies controversy. Science magazine gets Celera's map. The journal normally allows unfettered access by researchers to the data behind its articles. But not this time. And that has some researchers worried that business is usurping openness in science. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports

Nearly 6 million former felons will not be able to cast ballots in next year's presidential election. Thousands are trying to change that by petitioning for clemency.