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Hundreds of migrant children are housed at a South Florida shelter, which is under scrutiny because it's the only one to be run by a for-profit corporation and is not overseen by state regulators.

The Pentagon has long acknowledged climate change has broad implications for national security. That is especially clear in the Arctic, where melting ice is opening new shipping lanes.

Developing countries have been invaded by 200-pound Nile perch, pretty flowers and beavers. A new study asks: What's the impact?

Thousands of residents and vacationers have fled by land and by sea as firefighters and volunteers battled through the night. It comes during the country's worst heat wave in three decades.

All that whipsawing on Wall Street in the first half of the year reflects real nervousness. Investors are worried the Fed may tip the economy into a recession.

Barbecue is as American as apple pie — but the origins of the word "barbecue" is in the Caribbean.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with former Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall about the leadership shakeup at the Pentagon, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown's firing.

Trudeau has been called "dashing," hip and a #hottie. President Obama will host him at a state dinner Thursday, the first time the White House has welcomed a Canadian leader in nearly 20 years.

Americans have responded to drug addiction in a number of different ways in recent decades. The War on Drugs of the 1980s and 90s spawned mass...

TikTokkers are buying exotic pets like servals, raccoons, kinkajous and foxes because of the enticing videos they see, without considering the responsibilities of owning them, experts say.