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The United Nations has just released a grim report on civilian casualties in Afghanistan over the last year. Casualties rose 14 percent in 2013, with nearly 3,000 people killed and more than 5,500 injured.

A measure that would prohibit contests that award cash or prizes for killing certain wildlife is unlikely to clear the Senate after narrowly passing the House last week, according to its Senate sponsor.

The drills are a warning to Taiwan's new president, who this week called on China in his inaugural address to cease its intimidation of Taiwan.

Winter 2023's Antarctic sea ice was at its lowest level since satellite measurements began. A new study shows how unlikely this would be without man-made factors.

What does the prospect of Mexico's first woman president and feminism in the country mean for Elena Poniatowska?

From the Bronx, Pacheco was previously named New York City youth poet laureate and the inaugural New York state youth poet laureate.

African and Caribbean immigrants in Philadelphia are organizing following disparaging comments attributed to President Trump that he made about their homelands.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers some of the 27 young people who perished at Camp Mystic in the catastrophic flooding of the Guadalupe River in Central Texas, July 4th.

Kevin Lopez, a construction worker who lives alone, said he was on a job site when the fire started at his mobile home on Wednesday morning.

Scientists are reconsidering old information about Uranus. NPR's Scott Simon explains the problem with photos taken of the planet 38 years ago.