MILAN — Alysa Liu has won figure skating gold, the first U.S. woman to do so in over two decades. It's an ironic outcome for the 20-year-old, who said earlier this week that she wasn't motivated by a ...

Akron's Citizens' Police Oversight Board released its 2025 annual report Thursday, detailing structural challenges the board ...

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.

Canada was long the top dog of Olympic women's hockey. But with a win Thursday, the Americans could do more than earn a third ...

In a slow-motion race of two retail behemoths, Amazon's trump card was its lucrative cloud-computing business.

The classic spiritual conjures themes of freedom and resilience, which flow through a conversation between pianist Lara ...

The City of Cleveland and the federal government filed a joint motion to cease the city's consent decree on policing after ...

The move is another Trump administration effort to limit legal pathways to migration or resettlement, after already curbing ...

A Republican voting overhaul is back on Capitol Hill — with an added photo identification provision and an altered name.

The removal of the State Teachers Retirement System board chair is another chapter in the continuing upheaval at the pension fund in recent years.

An NPR reporter covering the Olympics in Milan takes us on cultural side quests, to a hospitality house and a candy store.

Trump announced his plans to close the Kennedy Center entirely for two years "for Construction, Revitalization, and Complete Rebuilding." The announcement came after many prominent artists canceled ...