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The Boston Globe is suing a former employee who has accused a top editor of sexual harassment. The paper wants more details about her accusation and is requesting unspecified damages.

Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court Tuesday, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito.

on Speaker Newt Gingrich's bid for a second term. His re-election has been clouded by his admission that the ethics sub-committee received misleading documents about funding of a college course he taught.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on the four directors who have led the Federal Bureau of Investigation since J. Edgar Hoover. The FBI's most recent director, Louis Freeh, leaves a bureau clouded by scandal and accusations, but his predecessors didn't have an easy job, either.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration says that a geomagnetic storm that originated on the sun may explain why a major communications satellite stopped functioning two weeks ago. NASA captured the most comprehensive images ever of the storm, including a sequence showing a cloud of solar particles lifting off the sun and heading toward Earth. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

Commentator John Rosenthal describes a photograph he once took. The image he captured in the picture is deceiving, and people make incorrect assumptions when they look at it. Photographs beg the viewer to look for what is behind the picture. Because things aren't always as they seem -- like the atomic mushroom cloud, which is beautiful until you understand what it means.

Colorado ski resorts work to increase cloud seeding and produce more snow on the slopes, saying the past year was one of the worst on record for snowfall. Eric Whitney from member station KSUT reports.

The chief of the Miami Gardens police department resigned on Wednesday amid allegations that his officers have been harassing and intimidating local…

Top defense officials took questions from lawmakers about the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley defended calls he made to China at the end of Trump's presidency.

Federal agencies are working furiously to find out what is causing people to sicken and are warning consumers not to vape.

If the meeting was indeed an effort to establish a secret line of communication with the Kremlin, that would be "at odds" with what Erik Prince told the committee previously, Rep. Adam Schiff said.

The agency that oversees the U.S. intelligence community has released an unusual public statement ruling out the theory that the coronavirus was manmade.

The pūteketeke won the contest after comedian and talk show host John Oliver unleashed a zany, worldwide campaign on its behalf.

Congress will certify the 2024 presidential election results Monday, exactly four years after the attack on the Capitol. Plus, the split among Republicans over immigration reform.

The deal is comprehensive and technical, but here's a quick write-up that explains sanctions, centrifuges, breakout time and enrichment.

Judge Tanya Chutkan knows her way around a courtroom after years as a public defender. Now her rulings will be on international display in the Jan. 6 case against the former president.

At a hearing on Capitol Hill Tuesday, a senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs accused his agency of waste, fraud and mismanagement in the way it purchases medical care and supplies.

President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday expelled the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela and his deputy for allegedly conspiring against his government and trying…

Every child needs help from parents and teachers to develop his or her attention span, argues a researcher.

Amid tensions in the South China Sea, NPR sat down with Philippines' Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro. He has accused China of "gutter talk" and "propaganda" in its territorial claims.