A study analyzed decades of births and found that larger families showed a distinct tendency toward all girls or all boys, rather than a mix.

NPR newsroom chief Edith Chapin says she's leaving the network. She made the announcement just days after Congress voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.

Actor and Grammy Award winner Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role as the sweet teenager Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at age 54.

After over a decade in exile, many Syrians living abroad are contemplating what was once unthinkable: going home. But what ...

A new study in JAMA shows how proximity to Coldwater Creek, where nuclear waste from the Manhattan Project was improperly ...

NPR has learned that the Pentagon has also approved the expansion of the U.S. Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for the same purpose.

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say the Trump administration's focus on new equipment doesn't address ...

Former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Loretta Mester says it's important that the Fed stays independent ...

Bavarian palaces, imperial tombs in China and memorials to Khmer Rouge victims are among the sites being recognized by the ...

The House approved a Trump administration plan to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds, including $1.1 billion ...

CDC staffers worry $140 million in grants could fail to reach state and local overdose programs. The White House officials ...

Filmmaker Ari Aster, who wrote and directed Midsommar and Hereditary, returns to theaters this weekend with a ...