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The actress and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador persuaded Malala Yousafzai to embrace a term she previously wasn't sure about.

Cases are spiking in the Middle East and in East Africa. Blame it on the refugee situation — and the weather.

The justices said Friday they would hear a challenge brought by faith-based groups that contend the government's exemptions on birth control do not go far enough to accommodate them.

George Barris, who created the Batmobile through his work customizing cars, has died.

The New England Patriots have recently been very lucky. NPR's Kelly McEvers and Robert Siegel explain the probability of the football team winning the last 19 out of 25 coin tosses.

Missouri’s five declared Republican candidates for governor hold similar views on most issues – but not, it seems, on when they all should share the...

NPR's Kelly McEvers interviews environmentalist Bill McKibben, who founded 350.org, about why he's celebrating Obama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline, even though the next president can reverse it.

A new ad hammers home Republican David Vitter's involvement in the 2007 D.C. Madam prostitution scandal. He easily won re-election to the Senate but faces renewed scrutiny in his run for governor.

Two of four local deputies involved in a shooting in Marksville, La., are charged with second-degree murder. The police chase that ended in gunfire Tuesday also left the boy's father wounded.

Will the third year be the charm for coaxing the uninsured to sign up for health coverage? Federal officials are targeting Newark, N.J., and four other cities during open enrollment.