National parks enter their busiest season understaffed and underfunded. Morning Edition visited Joshua Tree to speak with ...

President Trump's decision to launch airstrikes on Iran's nuclear facilities without first consulting Congress has drawn ...

After the longest toxic algal bloom on record off the southern California coast, marine mammal researchers are investigating how sea lions were affected, and releasing the last few back into the wild.

President Trump promised to carry out the most deportations in U.S. history, focused on criminals. But now, immigration officials are going after asylum seekers who say they're fleeing persecution.

How NATO is grappling with defense spending as President Trump heads to The Hague to meet with NATO leaders -- days after his strikes on Iran.

The U.S. military bombed key nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend. Afterwards, President Trump warned Iran not to strike back — but Iran has launched missiles at a major U.S air base in Qatar.

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Journalist Carter Sherman says that members of Gen Z are having less sex than previous generations — due in part to the ...

Maria Reva's virtuosic novel starts out as a straightforward story about a Ukrainian biologist, but morphs into a comic take ...

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This year, NPR wants to know how freedom has been on your mind leading up to the holiday. What does freedom mean to you? How ...

Lay Your Armor Down” is Smith’s eighth novel, and two of the previous novels have already been made into films. Raised in ...