"Prevost, known as Pope Leo XIV, gets his first of perhaps many biographies to come, but NPR’s Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow set the bar high. . . . A fas...

Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...

The state has had 108 cases this year, the most since 2019. The declaration comes amid a national resurgence of the highly contagious viral illness.

Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.

The AI surveillance state is real — and it's being built by Palantir.

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A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.

Pope Leo XIV sends a message of condolence to the parish priest of Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City after an Israeli strike kills five people, ...

ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”

We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.

US psychiatrist and neurologist Karl Deisseroth and his German colleagues Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel won the prize for their work that helps researchers understand how specific cell types contribute to behaviors like learning, fear, addiction and movement.

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A re-release of “Avengers: Endgame” helped the blockbuster Marvel movie surpass “Avatar” to become the highest-grossing movie of all time this weekend.

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In Memory of My Beloved Father in Law, the Partisan Who Chose Peace

He and a small troop of French Jews worked with the Allies to distribute supplies and fight the Nazis, ambushing a German train and liberating a city in the south.