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Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

A giant sinkhole swallowed the center of a soccer complex that was built over an operating limestone mine in southern Illinois, leaving a gaping chasm where kids often play. No injuries were reported.

India's top court refused to legalize same-sex marriages. The five judges hearing the case ruled that only the Indian parliament could make that decision.

NPR's Mary Lousie Kelly talks to Jonathan Freedland, columnist for The Guardian, about the UK's foreign policy crisis with Iran this week.

Strides in academic excellence, research and diversity are near-term goals of Robert ‘Bob’ Caslen, the University of South Carolina’s new president.…

Meng Wanzhou, a senior executive of Huawei, a Chinese tech giant, appeared at a hearing Wednesday in Vancouver to decide whether she should be extradited to face fraud charges in the United States.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif showed up at a recent chat and erupted over a recent hit series. "He was really mad, yelling, because he was really outraged by that TV series," says an attendee.

A master's degree, especially from an elite university, can be expensive. But a several universities are trying an experiment online to see if that cost, for some degrees, can come down.

Ukraine's foreign minister told the AP that his government is aiming to have a summit, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary-General António Guterres as a possible mediator.

Authorities are investigating fires that have damaged or destroyed black churches in South Carolina and nearby states following the shooting deaths of nine people at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.