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For the first time since 2020, COVID is not one of the 10 leading causes of death in the U.S.

Heman Bekele, winner of 3M's Young Scientist Challenge, wants to make cancer treatment cheaper and more accessible.

The 60 or so members of the Jasons are normal academics by day. But each summer, they come together to study tough problems for the military, intelligence agencies and other parts of the government.

President Trump defended the use of troops in U.S. cities while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told military commanders about new physical fitness and grooming requirements for uniformed personnel.

Daily death tolls have dropped, but experts are wary of another surge. President Jair Bolsonaro, amid a Senate probe into the country's pandemic response, continues to attack health measures.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Grammy-nominated artist 6LACK about his newest album: Since I Have a Lover.

An American airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan last month was "a tragic mistake," the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. He cited a long list of what he called "human" and "process" failures that led to the attack.

A letter from two House Democrats presses Rubio for details about who approved an effort to try to use hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money on armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

It's a case of real life catching up with James Bond fiction: Britain's MI6 spy agency named its first-ever female chief. She used to be Q. Now she'll be C.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez reports on the political brouhaha surrounding serious fire code violations that may keep many Washington DC schools from opening on time. This is the second time over the past 3 school years that a judge has ordered the district to fix code violations before opening certain schools. The DC Superintendant of Schools has been accused of misusing money that has been set aside to fixing the city's aging schools. All in all, the situation is creating new anxieties for local parents already concerned about the quality of the school system. In 1992, parents filed a lawsuit to force the school board to take care of the conditions - they won the suit but have had to go back to the court two more times and are still not satisfied.