Dan Taberski won a "Podcast of the Year" award for his investigation of a 2011 outbreak of tics and spasms in one high school. He's also the creator of the "Missing Richard Simmons" podcast.

New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is also a mayoral candidate, was arrested and detained for several hours on Tuesday after he tried to escort a man out of a routine immigration hearing.

NPR speaks with Setareh Sadeqi, assistant professor at Tehran University, about how Iranians are experiencing the conflict with Israel and what Iran hopes to achieve.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., who is also on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about U.S. policy toward Iran. Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well ...

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said Iran is "marching very quickly" toward a nuclear weapon. The U.S. intelligence ...

Goliath had been paired with several female tortoises before, in hopes of producing a hatchling, but the process wasn't ...

The highly anticipated text from the Senate is out — and it's already causing concern from GOP stakeholders in both chambers.

The man charged with killing a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband is connected to a once-fringe religious movement that is now growing quickly, and which uses inflammatory anti-abortion rhetoric.

Israel and Iran have been trading attacks for five days. Jordan, Lebanon and other countries are caught in the flight path between the two.

A U.S. federal court judge in Boston has ordered the restoration of the grants issued by the National Institutes of Health that had been canceled by the Trump administration.

Back in the 1970s, the prevailing thought was that it wasn't safe for women to run. A leader in the fight for a woman's right to run has died. Nina Kuscsik was 86.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Aaron Stein, president of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, about the stakes and the history of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.