The National Weather Service said it confirmed several tornadoes had touched down outside of Houston on Saturday.

General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's ...

Big Lots said Friday it will be sold to Gordon Brothers Retail Partners, a firm that specializes in distressed companies.

The Norwegian chess grandmaster was fined $200 and given a warning by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) to change ...

Yellen told Congress her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special accounting maneuvers intended ...

People feared the computer glitch would mean "the end of the world as we know it." Thankfully, Y2K didn't live up to the hype ...

Hussey was 15 when director Franco Zeffirelli cast her in his adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy. The film won two Oscars ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Brian Taylor, who teaches Russian politics at Syracuse University, about the call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with Brian Taylor, who teaches Russian politics at Syracuse University, about the call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leader of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.

The Kremlin said air defense systems were firing near Grozny due to a Ukrainian drone strike as the Azerbaijani airliner ...

The faiths in our family include skepticism. But we have come to think of prayers not as a list of wishes hurled into the ...