Flash flooding slammed the Texas Hill Country overnight on Friday. At least 27 girls from a summer camp next to the Guadalupe ...

Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have contributed to that change.

First time novelist, Aisling Rawle, has just published "The Compound" - a book set in a semi-dystopian reality TV show.

An NPR journalist in Gaza describes his experience seeking food from a site run by private American contractors, facing Israeli military fire, crowds fighting for rations, and masked thieves.

The number of people dead rose Saturday after the "catastrophic" flooding from Friday Morning along the Guadalupe River in central Texas. Houston Public Radio's Dominic Anthony Walsh reports from the ...

Governor Greg Abbott says the state will work day and night to find people who may be stranded and unable to call for help.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

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President Trump had a major legislative victory this week as his party once again rallied around his agenda. Looming next week is another major priority of his: new tariffs and trade deals.

At least 24 people are dead after flash flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas. Rescue efforts are underway to find 20 people who are still missing.