Experts say smugglers are treating migrants more harshly and bringing them on paths that could be more dangerous in extreme ...

Canada expelled India’s top diplomat in the country and five others over last year's killing of a Sikh activist in British ...

Destroying the roads would be in line with Kim Jong Un's push to cut off ties with South Korea and abandon the decades-long ...

The Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded Monday to a trio of U.S.-based researchers, for their study of the institutional roots of wealth and poverty among nations.

After an 11-month wait, giant pandas will populate the zoo once again. A pair of pandas, which left China on FedEx's "Panda ...

As Native Americans across the U.S. come together on Monday for Indigenous Peoples Day to celebrate their history and culture ...

A USDA program kills wild animals at the request of private livestock owners. NPR obtained exclusive documents to show how its employees manage wildlife.

The lawsuits filed Monday accuse the hip-hop mogul of raping women, sexually assaulting men and molesting a 16-year-old boy.

Arizona could go either way this presidential year -- that's what makes it a swing state. But it could also go either way on down the state's ballot, right to a question on abortion rights.

The public won’t be allowed to make comments at a state-run meeting this week about a crisis of missing and murdered ...

A non profit has trained more than 160,000 veterans as poll workers, in the face of growing threats and skepticism about the security of elections.

In Washington, D.C., residents celebrated Indigenous People’s Day by birdwatching on Roosevelt Island. Centuries before the island became a memorial to the president, it was home to Native Americans.